OT - Quck DNS MX question.

[Glenn Steen]

On 28/07/07, Rick Tait <rickt at rickt.org> wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> >
> > They got some hotshot rookie Exchange admin to install Exchange on their
> system,
> > taking out what they used to have. There was a definite need for something
> on
> > site, but I'm not sure Exchange was the best solution. Anyway, he wanted
> us to
> > continue being their MX and even hubbing their mailboxes. He then set up
> > something like fetchmail to retrieve the mail and put it in their local
> > mailboxes. That way, they got the benefit of our MS/Clam/SA etc. It's all
> fine
> > except when his fetchmail-whatever script doesn't work, or they get a new
> > employee. They keep calling me about the problems and I have to keep
> telling
> > them over and over that I don't do that part anymore.
>
> Wow!!! They're getting a sweet deal... What's with the store, store, store,
> store-n-forward though? What's wrong with the usual behaviour of you being
> /bastion/ MX and then immediately relay via postfix transport map (etc,
> sorry dont know what you run) right away? Then you don't have to worry about
> storing all their stuff (sucks that you have to do that, as an admin its
> just one more thing you could care less about but have to keep an eye on).
> And of course they still get the bennies of the MS/Clam/SA. Plus it ain't
> your problem Jack if they get mailbombed or DoS'd and its their filesystems
> not yours that fill up. Why should you be paying for their disk?
Steve runs a Rendmaul shop. Basically agree though.... Unless there is
significant moneay involved, why do that...:-)

> I was doing something similar (free) for a friend/ex-colleague for a long
> time and I just eventually got pissed off enough about it to do something.
> He was a bit of a crazy type A guy so rather than just tell him to sling his
> hook I basically made some crap up (which may or may not be true but I guess
> probably is) about my not wanting to be potentially liable under various
> tech laws for having stored his company emails on my own servers, and would
> rather it be a quick anti-spam/anti-virus scan and then I whizz it off
> immediately to his end delivery MTA (Exchange 2000). I mentioned my server
> being public and his being private and I think his own paranoia just kicked
> in and he quickly arranged his own end such that I was simply  his first-hit
> relay and his stuff was no longer being stored on my "public" servers.
>
:-) You'd better hope he doesn't read this public forum then.... those
type As can be vicious;-)
>
> -RMT.
>
>
> -- Vescere bracis meis.
Not that hungry, so I'll pass....

Cheers
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