On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 07:51:33PM +0800, neuroticimbecile wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2001 18:48, you wrote: > > > > in my previous job, our office is a m$ house from the rack servers to > > the director's laptops. back then they were implementing cisco's vpn > > client solution which uses pix as the vpn server. the idea is any road > > warrior can check their corporate emails from anywhere in the world by > > just dialling in to a local isp of that country. > > > > now when i saw how expensive the cisco solution is i thought maybe > > there's an open source solution. > > yes there is, and they can still use their m$ laptops. > > linux+apache+openssl+php+imp > > that is, if all they need to do is "check their corporate emails from > anywhere in the world" as you mentioned above. IPSEC just for email is overkill - they should've justified the IPSEC by doing something else via mail. Web-based mail will also work, but that's really for cybercafe users rather than folks with their own laptops. What should be done in this case is simply - POP/IMAP over TLS. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
