On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 18:02 -0700, Stephen Smith wrote: > I'm running a helpdesk application that uses email for notification. > However, the company does not want all users to have email or internet > access outside of the private net (too much time wasted on non-business > activities).
My company has similar philosophies. Our justification for keeping internal and external email separate is that the internal server is Exchange (*yuck*) and nobody trusts it for anything. It's tied into our helpdesk system as well. We do pull some external email in through a POP agent, but that's it. Some of us use intelligent mail clients, like Evolution, which are smart about which SMTP server to use based on account. Most people use Outlook for Exchange (for the groupware features), but since it's brain-dead they require a second client for external email. Historically that was Eudora, but we've pretty much migrated to Thunderbird. Having two email clients is a pain, but much less so than trying to trick Outlook into working. And it keeps the two completely separate, which is good except for when you try to forward an external message internally, or vice versa. Realistically, it hasn't been a problem for us. Corey
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