We use forwarders for such tasks. Jim, our lead forwarder, says that it takes a lot of patience and a good HMO (due to excessive paper cuts) but the job is a pretty secure one. Speaking of secure, why would you ever need public or private keys when you can always used armed courier and flash paper? If someone tries to hijack it, the paper incinerates. Yeah, you lose the paper and probably the courier, but here in corporate America, we call it collateral damage. I suppose an electronic form of secure mail might keep all of those bleeding heart liberals quiet about unnecessary loss of life, but who are we kidding here? Such a thing is light-years from even a conceptual phase. We do occasionally get mail that is addressed incorrectly though. Kind of messes up the whole system. We finally decided to hire someone to take these messages and store them in a bad mail bin until we can later figure out how to best handle them. Worse than that though is all of the junk mail. We are calling it spam now, because the first one we got was from Hormel. It sucks having to read through all of this junk mail to separate the official from the spam. I guess there will be another couple of job openings at stone-age inc. If anyone knows of some sort of program or automated system, (maybe with robots) that would do all of this for us, I'd really like to know of it. The savings would be great. Not to mention how it would knock Jim off of his high horse. -----Original Message----- From: Technical [mailto:tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:25 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: why we need SMTP server?? http://www.MSExchange.org/ Neil We call this stamp jacking. We do find some companies send us mail which needs to be forwarded on to someone else. Often we have printed the message, popped it in an envelope and stamped it before we realise. We can waste lots of stamps every day with bad mail So to be able to exchange mail with other servers would be great, but to do it in a secure way and therefore waste no more stamps, I would not even dare to hope such a thing may one day exist. Frustrated Admin -----Original Message----- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:Neil.Hobson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 September 2003 15:34 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: why we need SMTP server?? http://www.MSExchange.org/ If you do develop such a beast, perhaps you could consider in-built mechanisms to exchange public and private keys, thereby avoiding the potential for other unscrupulous companies to hijack your server and send unsolicited messages? That would be great! :-) Neil _____ From: Technical [mailto:tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 September 2003 15:29 To: [ExchangeList] http://www.MSExchange.org/ The only down side to using stamps is the extra paper and printing costs. Our exchange server receives around 3000 emails a day from the internal users. We print these emails out along with an address label. These are then packed into an envelope, addressed and stamped ready for postage. We also receive around 4000 letters a day which we open and type into Exchange so our users can view them electronically. With a mail staff of 42 we can deliver and retype all mail within 6 hours. I dont know how we managed before we got the Exchange server but I do dream of the time when someone will develop a mechanism by which exchange servers and other mail servers could talk to each other. The time saved printing, posting and retyping mail would be a huge cost saving for all. They could call is something like Simply Mail To People. Any one fancy trying to develop that? 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