Re: A/400 as e-mail server

We have a customer which uses Exchange or Outlook and NO virus scanning
software on their email server.  Several key people here are loaded into
their address book.  They pass out more virus's than a crack wh*re.
Thankfully we are using Domino and the Trend Micro product to scan all
email for virus.  And we have it set up to download a new pattern file from
Trend 4 times a day.  We are on pattern file 859.  They jumped 4 numbers
just yesterday evening alone.  Something about N*ked Wife virus.  There is
NO way we would use a simple POP server and expect all of our PC's to
download from the Internet multiple times a day to constantly upgrade their
virus pattern files.

Many home PC users do not purchase a virus package.  Many of those that do,
probably haven't updated their pattern files since day of purchase.  And
those that do update, probably need to do it more frequently.  I just went
from 3 to 4 times a day yesterday.

Rob Berendt

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Jon,

  Frankly it works. We have several customers using it internally and
externally. It's not particularly feature rich (!) but it works, is
free, and has the basic stuff required. It's not particularly obvious
how to stop it from being an open relay, or to have email automatically
forwarded from one mailbox to another but it's in there. As of V4R4 or
so we almost never have to restart anything, lose mail in MSF, or do
much at all to it at all. It's not much load on the system either.

  I would start with it, and if you decide it doesn't do what you need
THEN look at a commercial package.

   - Larry

> This is my day for questions!
>
> I know I could use Domino, and I know there are myriad AS/400 mail
> offerings, but what is to prevent me from simply configuring my AS/400 as
> my mail server and using Outlook (for example) as my desktop client.  I
> don't need to send much (any?) mail directly from the 400 itself, no need
> to send spoolfiles etc.  So just why would I want to spend money on a
> commercial product when I can just use the 400's POP3/SMTP capabilities.
>
> Jon (I know just enough about e-mail to be lethal) Paris

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