John Cusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The cost of hardware is so phenominally cheap nowadays, what is wrong > with a simple strategy of using SME at the front door on a cheap 586 > with a couple of drives and pci network cards and then putting a > high-end, latest and greatest redhat/whatever server behind that to > handle all the other connectivity and email issues that seem to drive so > many people a little batty? This is the exact worst-case scenario for SME loosing ground and being replaced by the competition. As a stand-alone firewall device, SME does not compare to the competition. Many open-source firewalls offer more robust firewall feature sets. Look at SME now, here is a 'firewall' with no standard port forwarding panel??? One would expect this for any firewall device. Considering the contrib exists, this is truly unbelievable to me that it is not standard or even incorporated and enhanced. As a stand-alone server, well you've just made the point that if you want a better e-mail system, with true virtual domain support, SME is not the answer and you may be better off for example using a generic RedHat/Bynari combination. If you just want a file/print server well 'everyone' does this quite well. IMO, SME's biggest strength is the all-in-one approach. Pull this apart and SME is simply not the best answer. Keep it together and even then, SME is now falling behind. Regards, -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
