I'm asking you folks because a lot of you seem to have decent experience with mail & stuff. ;)
1)POP or IMAP? Do you require users to use one or the other? If so, why? I am trying to migrate users to IMAP but have run into resistance from our new manager, who doesn't have any valid technical reasoning for keeping people on POP.
2)Backups? What are you using for backups, and what exactly gets backed up?
My dilemna is that our new manager seems to be contradicting himself and saying that "we have to give the users the tools they need to do their jobs" but saying "users can only have 1gb on the file server to back up data, and they have to do it themselves."
I'm confused, because my goal is to try to prevent people from losing data. POP = mail on local disk. Disk dies, mail is lost. IMAP = mail on server. Disk dies, user doesn't lose 3 years worth of mail.
Backups? Am I supposed to let the secretary back up her own Outlook .pst files? (Only a handful of people here use Outlook.) What about the Mac users? Are they just out of luck?
I'm trying to see what others would do in this situation. I'm not sure if I should be as stressed out about this as I already am. =/
-Jonathan
