Well I was equally intrigued when I read the news piece. Moreover the article never talks of mail server and rather talks of the mail client. In my views this is what might have happened
1. Virus problems might be common at PMO and they might have asked to switch to a virus free mail solution, especially in view to save their face in the RTI query. 2. The vendor/operator/administrator might have suggested switching to some linux based solution. 3. They might have migrated the mail server to sendmail/postfix/qmail or any other linux based mailing solution with Squirrel mail as the web access tool. 4. I am not sure about the protocols or the mail clients now being used, but the environment is surely on Windows based on the desktop PCs accesing Squirrel Mail. People in touch with NIC or PMO may kindly throw more light on these dobuts. But I am happy that at least they started off something which is someway connected to open source. Regards Dhiraj Gaur On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]>wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 09:29:01 Dhiraj Gaur wrote: > > most of the emails addressed to it were not received. The problem was > > detected only in late April after which the Microsoft Outlook Express > > email software was discontinued and replaced by — Squirrel mail. > > I am more puzzled by this bit than anything else. > > How much of the problem does replacing Outlook Express by Squirrelmail > solve? > > - Is the IMAP server behind Squirrelmail an open source one? Or is it > Exchange? > > - Is the machine on which Squirrelmail is accessed Windows or not? > > - Would downloading/executing attachments, which is the most likely > cause of the virus attack, cause a similar attack on the host computer > or not? > > -- > Sandip > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
