On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Kshitij M Kotak kshitij_kotak@hotmail.com wrote:

Sameep

Google apps is good but customer wants an on-premise solution.

IMO, he will also need an on premise sys admin, if this email server is facing the Internet.

-- Arun Khan

On Tuesday 28 September 2010 09:49 PM, Kshitij M Kotak wrote:

Sameep

Google apps is good but customer wants an on-premise solution.

Any full scale email application that is in house will need a lot of settings, whether you use command line or gui as you have to manually set different parameters, including a proper DNS server with reverse lookup otherwise other servers will block your mails, a proper firewall, a spam guard, an anti-virus, attachments limiter etc. There will always be people trying to crack into it from outside and inside. You will have to look up various on-line documentation and select the one that at least looks easier to setup. There will be no short cuts to that.

Another way out is to use a commercial web space with pop/smtp emails facility and for your client you provide a customised box in his premises with some value added features. For eg. an email relay server which sends mails from the office to the main remote smtp servers. A facility to send a bcc of all outgoing mails to the boss and only those addresses who are in the white list can receive mails from the office, so no one can send mails to family and friends from the office account. Similarly you can provide a value added service like no access for anyone to the internet. Everyone logs into the local mail server (your box) and it communicates with the remote email service. This reduces your headache, yet allows you to make money on the local box.