RE: Gartner Group: DO NOT USE IIS!

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Walden H. Leverich wrote:

> 1) You shouldn't be allowed to run SMTP and POP3 internally! If you're
> allowed to run SMTP outbound how is the company to monitor e-mail? What
> about virus scanning? Perhaps the footer the legal department puts on each
> outbound e-mail. Also, do you, the desktop user, understand the network
> architecture? There may be reasons that you can't send e-mail from your
> location and it's must be routed through another location.

Umm... maybe I don't *want* the company to monitor my email?  The whole
point of moving to a non-Microsoft solution is that it makes virii(sp?) a
non-issue.  Further, I've never been in a *nix network that didn't keep
all the email on the server, route all smtp traffic correctly, and
firewall any attemps to break the system.  These aren't issues in non-MS
land because things *work*.  These aren't new problems - their solutions
were worked out a long time ago.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com