Re: brief email survey

[Jeff Tyler <jeff@jthome.com>]

"Adam and Christine Levin says:"
> 
> 
> I hope nobody minds my doing this little email survey.  Please reply
> directly to me and I'll collate and post the results when I have a good
> number of responses (hopefully a week or so).
> 
> 1) What email server software does your organization use (sendmail,
> postfix, qmail, exim, etc)?

sendmail


> 
> 2) What email client software does your organization use (Eudora, Outlook,
> Pegasus, Pine, etc)?

elm pine mutt mh xmh Eudora Outlook Netscape cat ...

> 
> 3a) Do your users access mail from remote locations?

Yes, 80% of them come in over the Internet.

> 
> 3b) Do you use some sort of POP-Before-SMTP protocol for those users in

Yes, along with SecurID aunthentication.


> 3a, or do you require them to use the remote SMTP server (or, do you
> simply have an open relay or hardcoded remote addresses)?

YARRGG !

> 
> 4) What is your message size limit?  Do you ever reconfigure your mail
> server temporarily to make exceptions for "important" large emails coming
> out of your organization?

Varies from list to list, we have hundreds.

> 
> 5) Do you implement mailbox quotas on a per-user basis?  If so, how big is
> that quota?

Yes 12Mb.

> 
> 6) How big is your organization (# users, # admins, # unix servers, #
> workstations (PC or otherwise))?

~500 users.  Admin question is hard as we are all admins (we're a
consulting organization) but there are 3 first line Unix guys and
2 first line NT guys.  For mail there are a total of six boxes
involved, 3 Linux, two Solaris and 1 NT.  Not all are servers, some
are relay/gateway boxes.  We have about 70 client machines on the
inside (mix of desktops and laptops, most running win9x, a smattering
of Xterminals and you guess and I'll agree on the "outside".



> 
> Thanks very much in advance for participating.  

You're welcome ...

JT

> 
> -Adam
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> 
> 
> 


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