You'll need to compare Outlook (or Thunderbird or insert your favorite POP/IMAP client here) against GUI Mail and not Exchange.
Exchange is a groupware product and anyone is going to be hard-pressed to compare it to sendmail unless all you're doing is SMTP. Using Exchange for just SMTP and POP/IMAP is overkill. And the virus issue exists everywhere. The main problem with Outlook (again, not Exchange) is it *was* easy to execute attachments but that hasn't been the case for years. Outlook 2003 doesn't do it and I think SP2 for Office/Outlook 2000 fixed it as well. Outlook (today) won't download images, blocks access to dangerous attachments, and even has an anti-phishing system (as of 2003 SP2). If your organization (whomever it might be) takes security seriously, you'll have mail gateways along side your network firewalls. Speaking as an IT Admin, users will undoubtedly expose your network more so than hackers if you don't take proper precautions both externally and internally. My gateway even removes all scripts embedded into HTML files because - well - you just never know who's going to click on what without thinking! /David. David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sowinski, Richard J. Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:41 PM To: 'hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails? I don't know about postfix or sendmail, and what functionality they contain and whether or not you get the source code as well, and whether or not they are integrated with a fully functioning HIS. On viruses I'm talking about when Exchange is out of the equation, and Vista mail is all you're running. Somehow, I don't think there would have been nearly as many problems 2 years ago, when we were being assaulted on a daily basis. Anyway, just my opinion. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:21 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[...] > > But, how many things does Exchange do that VistA Mail can't do, > especially > when enhanced with GUI Mail or other GUI clients? How about X.400? Okay, okay...We're really comparing apples and oranges here. Outlook as an MUA is one thing, Exchange as an MTA is another. Message format is not an MTA issue, it is something falling in the domain of the user agent (MUA). > >[...] > > The other thing is how many viruses, etc, were spread via Exchange? > How many > by VistA Mail ? Actually, they could be. If Mailman is used to relay a message to Outlook, it is just as capable of spreading a virus as Exchange. > > If I were going to setup VistA somewhere, one of the biggest reason's > I'd do > it is to get the free e-mail system, and get Microsoft's (or whoever > else's > e-mail system I was running) license fees off my back. So, why not go with sendmail or Postfix? No license fees there. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Einstein was a giant. He had his head in the clouds and his feet on the ground." -- Richard P. Feynman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
