Re: [SAGE] Best Practices for Anti-Virus on Exchange

["Jeremiah Johnson" <jeremiah.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not only that, but in most big enterprised, if the sysadmin argues
with the demands of the President/CIO about MS being a POS they are
generally told they could work elsewhere.  Exchange/Outlook is
unfortunately a commonality in big business that many executives
expect to use to be productive.  Just like the MS Office suite, most
business users already know the software, and in big businesses you
want to make sure your people are as productive as they can be, and
not worrying about how they can open a MS Word document their client
sent them, or if they document they typed in OpenOffice will render
correctly in all versions of Word/Excel and vice versa.

I really dislike that I have to run Outlook at work to get email, MAPI
disgusts me, and OWA is a joke, give me IMAP/S and SMTP/S and I'll be
happy and wont complain when a single server outage in our "Exchange
cluster" brings my email response time to a halt.

So back to the point, I think it is acceptable, and smart to put a
UNIX system in front of Exchange to act as a gateway to protect users
from themselves and the evils of the Internet.

-Jeremiah

On Feb 2, 2008 11:28 AM, David Magda <dmagda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 2008, at 03:01, Howard Chu wrote:
>
> > It amazes me that people can say with a straight face "put a Unix/
> > Linux server in front of it and do the filtering there," tacitly
> > admitting how utterly irredeemable the Microsoft platform itself
> > is, such that it needs an entire separate computer to frontend for
> > it, and yet still using the Microsoft turd in their enterprise.
>
> I think you're preaching to the choir on this list. :)
>