I've convinced management (at my current employer) to give me a chance to replace our Netscape (and, hopefully soon, MS Exchange) server(s) with qmail. I installed, configured, and managed a qmail (+vpopmail+sqwebmail) server at my previous employer, after dumping the Netscape server I had *originally* installed. The problem is that our users are used to sending *huge* attachments (up to 100Mb), and you know how much users hate change. They also *love* IMAP, and keep everything forever. My first thought was a script that either stores a message as usual, or creates a hard link to a single copy stored somewhere else. Sort of like Russell Nelson's (and Peter Samuel's) eliminate-dups, but used on a domain-wide basis. Then, I realized that inter-site traffic (we have several offices spread across the country, most of which have their own MS Exchange servers) would still kill me, because qmail will send multiple copies of the *huge* attachments. Of course, I agree with the whole single recipient philosophy. It wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the damned *users*! I can't stop thinking about how I can switch over to qmail and friends, so my latest thinking is about a script to strip attachments, replace them with links (WTF, they're already full of HTML and MIME, too, not to mention the friggin' winmail.dat files :-(, to files on an FTP server. Has anyone tried something like this? Am I insane for thinking about it? Should I just buckle, and let MS Exchange take over? grier
