* Yanurul Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010503 02:39]:
> we intend to have separate smtp and pop3 server. smtp using qmail on
> linux redhat 6.2 and pop3 server using exchange on win2000advance
> server. the guys said that reason to do this is so we have two
> antivirus on the whole.
Antiviruses don't work. Using software not vulnerable to viruses works.
> companies treathened banning our mail last time cause ours were full
> of virus. so the guys thinks that it would be better to separate smtp
> and pop3.
That guy is a complete idiot.
1. Antiviruses don't work (see above).
2. W2k is a massive security threat, especially in the hands of someone
obviously not up to the challenge of setting it up in a production
environment.
3. MS Exchange introduces further massive risks in the areas of
stability, reliability and security.
I short: you are about to set up a buggy, insecure, unstable, expensive,
proprietary system known to violate every RFC pertaining to internet
mail in order to work around bugs, security holes and inconsistencies in
your mail clients which also work (or more often than not don't) under a
a self-proclaimed operating system written by idiots for idiots?
Sounds like a very reasonable plan IYAM.
OTOH, you might use one of the virus scanners available via
http://qmail.org/ and run more than one AV program on the same machine.
> is it acceptable? the reason i mean?
No. Not at all. But it will make at least two commercial companies very
happy.
> or anyone have better suggestion ? (any comment welcome. even
> flame...)
Hire an admin. You obviously don't have one.
--
Robin S. Socha
http://my.gnus.org/ - To boldly frobnicate what no newbie has grokked before.
