Actually, there is the third option. You can get one of the products
like NAI's Webshield SMTP or Symantec's counterpart and use that as your
SMTP relay servers. That will give you the added AntiVirus protection
plus more robust SMTP Server.
Andrew,
MCSE (NT & w2k) + CCNA
-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:01 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Mail Flow Configuration Question
Install an Internet mail connector in the local site and set it to
inbound only.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Walbert, Bryan (Bryan) ** CTR ** wrote:
> We have an Exchange enterprise of about 10 000 mailboxes. We have a
> mixture of clients ranging from Exchange clients to Outlook 2000 to
> Netscape IMAP clients using SMTP to relay outbound email. Currently,
> in some of our more remote sites we have some of the IMAP users who
> need a local relay host, to prevent slowing of the client while
> sending mail. We have narrowed it down to 2 solutions. I would like
> some external opinions as to which is the better solution. (more
> reliable, more secure, more efficient) Our enterprise is Exchange 5.5
> SP 4 running on Windows 2000 Advanced server (SP1 on the way to SP2)
>
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>
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> Option 1. Install a local IMS and allow relaying of mail traffic.
>
> Option 2. Use the IIS SMTP service installed on the box to relay all
> SMTP traffic to the backbone relay hosts.
>
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