>>>ok, it's your money. Most IMGate sites were IMail and Windows only,
How true. IMGate has proved to many NT admins just how great *nix is and just how . . . Andrew P. Kaplan A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" --Winston Churchill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Shadix > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ideal config > > > You could hire Len to set up an IMGate and treat it as a closed > system. I'll bet you could save tons of money that way. Do you > maintain the OS on your firewall or routers? There really isn't > much to maintain once it's set up and very few updates are > required, just the occasional security update. A lot less of > those than with MS and no reboot required for virtually all of them. > > Dan > > >>Free isn't the concern, it's support of the OS. We're a > Microsoft-shop and > >>don't want to add an OS into the mix that we can't properly support if > >>needed. > > > >ok, it's your money. Most IMGate sites were IMail and Windows > only, and I > >haven't heard of any of them that dropped IMGate because they couldn't > >"support" it. The benefits vastly outweigh the tiny involvement with > >*nix. And since it is, say, FreeBSD and SMTP plumbing, you'll > spend a lot > >less time futzing with it than with end-user support and > applications. The > >"another OS" factor is an imagined hurdle by people who haven't done > >it. Once they do it, they see the hurdle really was imaginary. > > > >Len > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/02 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
