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lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

>>also, in my experience, managers (pointy-head or not) are rarely overly
>>caught up by the technical details.  they just want such-and-such a problem to go away.
>>they usually don't really care how you do it, especially if it works well
>>and they never ever have to cut short a trip to the golf course because of it.
>>    
>>
>
>I don't share your luck and I think few do, although this forum may be
>more fortunate in that respect.  I am heading to Cape Town tomorrow
>morning to install MS Exchange in what will probably still be a NetBSD
>shop for a year or so.  Me, when I have no idea what Exchange actually
>look like!
>
>This is what comes of bucking the trend successfully.  IT management
>there believe it will cost them less to entrust the installation to me
>than to bring in an MCSE (by whatever the current label may be) that
>will install herself permanently behind the Exchange keyboard at a
>formidable monthly salary.  What will in fact happen, sadly, is that
>I'll be blamed for all the things that will go wrong with MS Exchange,
>irrespective of the real responsibility, more things will go wrong
>than usual because I'll insist in front-ending Exchange with the
>existing Sendmail installation, modified in haste to deliver to
>Exchange instead of the local mailboxes.  All sorts of extremely fancy
>features of Exchange will be used and the reliability of the existing
>system will soon will be forgotten.
>
>  
>
Reminds me of last weekend - i got a paniced call from one of the sales
execs - one with a clue - to get him OFF the exchange server because of
the problems. Now he is happy to have his mail forwarded to a linux 
virtserver
where he uses procmail and pine. I am ever so greatfull i am not responsible
for the exchange. I warned them against it and they went with a hosted 
solution
which gives people 150MB of mailbox space.... About the volume i dispose of
after a long weekend.

Good Luck...

-- Marina Brown