Re: [LI] Enterprise wide Email solution on Linux & NT

["Vishal Khanna" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I fail to understand why having a LINUX box for an Email network is
complicated, we run an multilocational, ( India, German, Netherlands) email
service and our people access there mail from wherever they are, for a
firewall we use the TIS FWTK ( not many have heard about this on the LUG but
it is worth a try ! www.tis.com/fwtk ), which makes configuring people who
login etc rather easy and controlled task. All you need to have is a running
sendmail config, a popper 3, a DNS, perhaps a DHCP (if you need it), and
viola, it should work, yeah but saying is easier thand doing ( I spent a
cool 1 month getting all up and running but that was 1 year back and never
looked at the system after that !!). Also Ms Proxy 2.0 has a lot of problems
and inherent bugs in it(=read security holes) apart from which if It cannot
work with Unix behind I think it is useless, okay it does work after
tweaking a host of things on the registry (if you do not corrupt it) -I have
been through this exercise and each time I add a workstation on the network
it is just running a simple shell script

a) To have access to the DNS
b) to create the user account
c) entry into  ./etc/aliases
d) run the author. manager of TIS

And that it is all with LINUX !, dont ask what all one needs to do with NT.

As far as a VPN goes, I think this term is rather misleading better would be
to clarify what you are looking at, as VPN is a term often misused in this
regard.  I mean why of all the things have a Ms Proxy I evalueated it foir
the evaluation period of 120 days and then threw it out as half the things
would not work esp. when you have Unix boxes behind the proxy :-((. I can
give you a letter of recommendation against it but I guess you have to be
tough on it.  I think Linux can be a perfect enterprise wide network, in
fact we use it like one as already mentioned. I actually dial up to my Nt
box, ( somehow my dialin does not work to the Linux , and never had the time
to figure that out) and browse the net using the companys leased line.. talk
about utilisation of resources.

Cheers
Vishal


>Im in the same position too.... We have only one Linux box here which is
>our proxy server which may be converted to MS Proxy Server too :-( How do I
>implement an enterprise wide (offices are in different cities & countries)
>email network or VPN using Linux.
>
>John
>
>>         Aside from all the troubles with Linux I am facing at my home, I
>> need to convince my bosses at work about using Linux. I have to implement
>> enterprise wide email.
>>         My bosses are for MS NT & Exchange. I would like to convince them
>to
>> go for Linux. Is there any site which will give me a comparison.
>


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