> Any enterprise application exposed for web services must run some > type of A/V software...
Agreed, generally so, but that's not in the EULA. They're more likely to look the other way on the installation of such a "utility," I'm sure, but I declare again that it's the other way--i.e. they can/could say that AV is prohibited in court if somebody find a loophole that their financial people don't like. > and if it cannot do any of it's own firewall blocking (to prevent > that included POP3/SMTP service from being hacked) at least needs to > be behind another firewall. I believe it's safe to say that most web servers do not run host-based firewalls as well. This wouldn't stop most orgs from a purchase. > Yes, there is that. But, that presumes you don't mind using it's > weaker functions or a 25-user MSDE app as the data store -- not a > very big enterprise solution. Allowed to use robust RDBMS data store for a mailserver != able to be an enterprise mailserver (proven all over the mail world). Number of users of a DB != enterprise capability. Max DB size, which is also limited w/MSDE, is more connected with DB robustness. But you're mixing major apples and oranges to say the RDBMS limitation has anything to do with mailserver capability. What comprises a "capable" mailserver is up to the organization, and many orgs (see next pp) find what 2003 offers to be just perfect. Is this a danger to IMail? Quite possibly: those who don't know they need Web Messaging and anti-spam (with or without Declude) could fall into using 2003, then when it's time to scale up to WM, groupware, anti-spam, (assuming, as I do, that MS SMTP/POP3 performs its tasks with stability and high performance) they'd already be in the MS camp and would have the resultant bureaucratic bottlenecks in trying to move to another vendor. MS SMTP/POP3 is a perfect way to bring more downstream business for Exchange. > But, as you have said (and I agreed), Exchange could not be run on > the same server, it would have to be on a separate server. Didn't say anything about Exchange, actually. What I said is that SMTP/POP3 services are built in to the 2003 OS. Many, many IMail users, and users of countless other solutions, consider those components alone to comprise a "full blown mail server application." -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ 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/
