On 30 Oct 2002, Sebastian Welsh wrote: > Instead, I'd work from the other direction. Once you have the mailserver > working, you'll want to maintain it. Your company will replace staff, > software will need upgrading, you may want to add further functionality. > So, the first thing to do is to look at who will be managing the system. > There are few things more discomforting than unmanaged, internet > connected servers, IMHO. Your objective is to implement a solution that > will be manageable. That means that the distribution and MTA need to be > ones that the administrator is comfortable with. > > If you are looking at having someone else build the system, make sure > that they either > - maintain the system > - provide adequate instruction in maintenance.
Which is why I recommend SME Server - you can admin it yourself with minimal instruction calling on a tech only if you need hardware. Security fixes are easy to monitor and install from the web-manager that you also use to add users/fileshares/virtual domains, etc. interest declaration: I sell SME Server but it's a brilliant distribution particularly for first timers. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
