I fully agree with you Davide. Unfortunatly management sees something that is hard to administer. For instance I can talk one of the others non-network people through fixing something on windows. To do the same thing takes 5 times as long on Linux because they are unfamiliar with it. I was brought up with MS-DOS before Windows 3 so I have never had any problems with command line tolls etc. I don't think a single programmer at work could do anything in linux with out some kind of GUI. With me being the only support person I can get calls any time night or day even if I am on holiday so I need something that I can talk a complete Muppet (management) through as quickly and as easily as possible.
Hopefully later this year I will be able to get a linux box for internal DNS and IDS as we seem to be coming under a lot of attacks recently. At home I am running Red Hat 9, WinXP and Windows 2003. They all have their uses and I use them all. Just wish management could see that Linux can be useful too. Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: 05 June 2003 17:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: Binding XMail to a specific NIC/IP address On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Alex Young wrote: > You would have thought Microsoft could get its $hit together and do > something useful with each new release of its OS. They even have open > source code they could steal to help them. If I could get Xmail to send > out on a specific port I could get the firewall to translate it back to > port 25 and a different IP address. Any way I can do this in windows? I know that many of you are just forced to work with it. But it seems so illogical to me. Linux has so many *free and yet powerful/working* tools to do things related to networking/server things. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
