Re: a good mail server

[Joshua Steele <jsteele@CodefusionIS.com>]

Not a 100% blown sys admin, but they need to be aware of certain things
like opening attachments from strangers, etc. and keeping there virus
definitions up to date (not too offten seen in the corp. environment
anymore)  Most things can be prevented if the person is somewhat aware of
what they are doing, which alot of people do not, and basically just
blunder around on the computer using WORD and EXCEL.  This also goes back
to the whole password guessing issue's that stil plage most networks
oneway or the other, but thats not really email related.  One thing that
really does get on my nerves is tech support personnel who only fix the
problem, and don't explain to the reg. users how to avoid the problem in
the future.

To sum it up:

"Knowledge is to share, not to hoard."  -nick holland

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On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> Actually I disagree. So we now have to turn every single user into a full
> blown 100% trained security admin, just so they can open up their email?
> What's wrong with this picture.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Steele" <jsteele@CodefusionIS.com>
> To: "Kurt Seifried" <openbsd@seifried.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: a good mail server
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> > everyone should agree that the best way to eliminate problems from virus',
> > etc. is to educate the users.  It doesn't matter what your running, or
> > how secure it is, when you get an ignorant (sometimes just moronic) user,
> > sooner or later a virus, or another incident is bound to happen.  Of
> > course, this isn't really a conceivable idea when you have 100+ users.
> > But its just food for thought.
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> > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> >
> > > > Exchange only runs on Microsoft  operating systems.  I'm not going
> > > > to do the  research to back this  up, but it's pretty  safe to say
> > > > that Sendmail only runs on Unix and Unix-like operating system.
> > >
> > > False. Sendmail.com. Supported systems include NT/2000. However if you
> mean
> > > "traditional" sendmail from sendmail.org then yes, it is not readily
> > > supported on Microsoft systems.
> > >
> > > > b&
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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> > > http://seifried.org/security/