"Paul D. Robertson" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Mikael Olsson wrote:
> > Ferdi Retief wrote:
> > > I use MS Exchange both inside and outside - comments welcome
> >
> > Then what is the point of having an outside mail server?
>
> The points are to [huge snip]
Yes thank you I know what mail forwarders are good for.
I thought the question was a rhetorical one and the answer
pretty much self evident. I guess I was wrong.
> Personally, I'd have chose a better external layer having seen Exchange's
> performance under fire, but that's my only grip with the architecture.
This is exactly the point I was making. If you can't trust your internal
mail server to be directly reachable from the Internet, why the h--- would
you replicate the exact same problem on the outside?
I'd go with a properly hardened *nix flavor (read: everything turned off
and packet filters installed to only allow port 25) and something like
postfix, which provides a bare minimum of services rather than a bloated
groupware service. (Yes, bloated. One does not need dozens of way to
access the data and lots of proprietary data kludges and built-in Active X
component magic just to forward messages via SMTP. That adds unnecessary
complexity, which any progammer will tell you is a Bad Thing(tm).)
EOD
/Mike
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