Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm wondering how to do something tricky, it's perhaps slightly off topic.
>
*snip*
>
> BTW - the idea is that my customers install it on their server.

*snip*

Two thoughts;

A) Uphill fight to get any sane Admin to install / allow third-party MTA on his 
site - especially if (highly) non-standard.

'Too much spam' is survivable. 'Offline' and gone dark is not.

B) To the extent a client HAS NO local admin, and/or said Admin DOES want to be 
free of the MTA burden, AND trusts your expertise, services, and site-visit 
support eg: *24x7x365 availability to keep running*..

It seems simpler to either migrate his whole MTA function to your rackspace, 
optionally leaving an on-site MTA as a relay, fallback inbound or even 
outbound-only.

OR use a fairly sane and standard MTA on his site that remotely accesses (more 
of) your bespoke tools BL's, etc - and can be remotely admin'ed (if need be). 
IOW - sell 'specialty configuration and management', not full 'ownership and 
control'. Anything wanting on-site install/support, and clients are limited to 
bike-route distances.

In any case - spam is no longer that hard to manage for Joe Average or his ISP, 
so any more complexity than what you already do is going to be harder to sell 
than to implement, and harder to support than either... even with at least one 
or two other staff - and trusting that the 'Key Man' continues to dodge gas 
main 
explosions and the like.

BT,DT,GTTS

*snip*

JM2CW, but - with diminishing returns on filtering-for-hire, I'd be looking for 
what to do with the rest of a career...

Bill

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