On Tuesday, May 8, 2007 7:07 AM, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 1:38 AM -0600 5/8/07, Lewis Butler imposed structure on a stream >of electrons, yielding: >>On 7-May-2007, at 16:26, Elliot Wilen wrote: >>>[...] >>I don't provide a vacation service because they are nearly >always abused. > >The major reasons for providing 'vacation' services are: > >1. You want local correspondents to have that sort of notice, i.e. in >a business environment. >2. You want to avoid having users set up their own (usually very >broken) autoresponders instead.
Yes, on both counts. With SIMS I am often asked by users to set up and tear down autoresponders and temporary forwarding when people go on vacation; if there wasn't a legitimate business justification I probably wouldn't go to the trouble. At one point I considered using AutoShare which IIRC had an email interface for configuring vacation messages; however, I didn't feel confident that it could be managed easily by someone who might be filling in for me--thus, Macjordomo was what I settled on. The vacation message feature of CGate appears to be well-designed, i.e., only sending one message per sender. >>>* Integration with single-sign-on solutions--CGate works with >>>Kerberos (which also gives me Active Directory as option) as well >>>as external helper scripts supporting LDAP, PAM, and RADIUS. >> >>Does it makes any sort of sense to have a single sign-on for a IMAP >>connection and a webmail conenction? What do you mean by single >>sign-on? > >It makes a lot of sense in a business environment where mail is just >part of the picture. Indeed. Furthermore the benefit of having a single login for multiple services will hopefully make it easier to sell users on the idea of changing their passwords periodically (or having them changed for them). >>>* Palm Treo support >> >>If the treo supports IMAP then I support the Treo. > >Yeah, that's pretty much an unanswerable. I need to speak to the key users here, granted. Nevertheless the availability of plugins for CGate is reassuring in case vanilla POP/IMAP doesn't do the trick. >>If you want CGate Pro, then pay for CGate Pro. > >Absolutely. There is no better choice for a mail system that just >works. MacOS X Server may come close, but it does not really beat CGP >and some people don't like being tied so tightly to Apple. Thanks very much to both of you. I wanted to make sure that I was making the right decision and not waste time investigating alternatives that might be more profitably spent on configuring CGate and planning the migration, so...thanks. --Elliot Wilen ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
