RE: Installing a second Exchange 5.5 server in our DMZ
- From: "John Mason Jr." <John.Mason.Jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:41:17 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Origel [mailto:jim.origel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:50 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Installing a second Exchange 5.5
> server in our DMZ
>
>
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
> John, acouple fo points to consider.
> 1. Exchange 5.5 does not have much shelf life left.
Agreed, however the need for a spam & virus filter won't be changing.
> 2. With the planning of putting in new hw/sw you could
> probably justify the cost of migrating to E2K3, which RBL
> functionality built in. It goes on the premise that if a
> user's SMTP is not registered in AD, then the mail is for all
> practical purposes treated as SPAM and discarded. Plus some
> neat features are coming with E2K3 SP1.
I still believe that Canit would provide a less expensive option in this
case, and provide far better filtering.
John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Mason" <John.Mason.Jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:51 PM
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Installing a second Exchange 5.5
> server in our DMZ
> > Greg,
> >
> > I use a product called CanIt-Pro http://www.canit.ca as my
> mail relay
> > and spam filter. All the software is included and I am
> quite sure the
> > cost
> will
> > be less than Exchange and will provide an outstanding
> filter for spam
> > & viruses. You can have the CanIt server do an LDAP lookup against
> > your Exchange server and bounce unknown users immediately, this
> > feature has
> saved
> > me lots of headaches especially with MyDoom forgeign addresses.
> >
> >
> > John Mason
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