Ideas for Mail and Calendaring for 50,000 Users

[Shawn Tayler]

qmail....  

Assuming he at least has an open mind.  You might point out the
HUGE security risks that he will be placing the University into if he goes
the MS route...

Look at Sobig, and believe it or not my office was brought down by Nachi,
the IT dept is node 253 of tertiary adjunct 46, it arrived as an
attachment, right through an Exchange mail server with McAfees big
commercial setup.  An idiot, in the DA's office, where else, clicked on
it and we are in our 3rd day of cleanup, it shutdown whole depts.  Every
unpatched Win2000 box that was turned on and connected to the network was
infected within minutes, I am serious, nearly a thousand machines... 
We have a very nice network infrastructure so it moved real fast.  And
Nachi isn't an email worm.

Shawn

On Wed,
27 Aug 2003 09:00:25-0500 Jason Joines<joines at bus.okstate.edu> professed:

>   We just got a new CIO at the university where I work.  One thing he is 
> about to do is get rid of all the different mail systems and have one 
> big combined system for all employees and students.  That'll be about 
> 50,000 users.
> 
>   At the moment the predominant faculty/staff mail system is Lotus 
> Domino on windows 2k and the predominant system for students is Sun 
> Internet Mail Server on Solaris.  He intends to replace these with ms 
> exchange on windows 2k.  There is a small chance he will listen to 
> suggestions to consider non-exchange options.
> 
>   Any suggestions?