Couple of ideas and I am assuming your gateways are incoming email and your Exchange boxes send directly to the world.
1) Replace the gateways with appliances. Like Iron Port. Out of the box plug and play spam/av with web interfaces for management. 2) Upgrade to Exch. 2007 and add something like Ninja from Sunbelt to the edge servers which replace your gateways. 1 is certainly cheaper and overall I think 2 is a bit better. Plus you get 2007 Exch to go with it. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sms adm > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:34 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > > Answers below. > Thx > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Dean Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hello Newbie :-) > > > > Why do you have them? > They accept mail from the Internet, use various Blacklists and > sendmail features to block spam. Relay all mail to the Internal Hubs. > The 2 Gateway servers share the load and provide redundancyfor each > other > > > Why do you have two gateways? > Redundancy > > > What are the two gateways used for? > Sendmail, Trend IMSS > > > What is the scale of use (messages per day) > I don't have numbers right now, but mail for 6000 corporate users > > > What is your exchange infrastructure? > Exchange 2003, 2 Front ends, 2 back ends, data on EMC box > > > What is the number of staff in your organization? > We have 1 UNIX/Linux guy and 1 guy who knows anything about > Sendmail/Trend's IMSS (this guy retiring) > > > > What are you wanting to achieve? > Need to assess our alternatives for support of this piece of the > environment. > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > sms > > adm > > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2008 09:19 > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Newbie Question > > > > We have two gateways in the DMZ running Sendmail. > > We sorely lack UNIX and Sendmail expertise, being single threaded in > > support of both. > > That single person is retiring at the end of the year and we are > > looking at alternatives. > > 1. Outsourcing? Anyone outsource this function? Is it possible? > > 2. An easier to support piece of software? 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