Re: brief email survey

[Jim Dennis <jimd@starshine.org>]

> I hope nobody minds my doing this little email survey.  Please reply
> directly to me and I'll collate and post the results when I have a good
> number of responses (hopefully a week or so).
 
> 1) What email server software does your organization use (sendmail,
> postfix, qmail, exim, etc)?

	sendmail, qmail and some exim (on lazily configured
	Debian boxes).

	... as a Linux support organization we run them all
	in some roles (keeps on us on our toes).
 
> 2) What email client software does your organization use (Eudora, Outlook,
> Pegasus, Pine, etc)?

	I use mh-e, many of our TSE's use mutt,
	many of our other users use Netscape Communicator
	and just about anything else they like (even
	MS Windows stuff in some cases).
 
> 3a) Do your users access mail from remote locations?

	Yes.
 
> 3b) Do you use some sort of POP-Before-SMTP protocol for those users in
> 3a, or do you require them to use the remote SMTP server (or, do you
> simply have an open relay or hardcoded remote addresses)?

	.... I could tell you but ....

	(POP through VPN/IPSec).
 
> 4) What is your message size limit?  Do you ever reconfigure your mail
> server temporarily to make exceptions for "important" large emails coming
> out of your organization?

	(None)
 
> 5) Do you implement mailbox quotas on a per-user basis?  If so, how big is
> that quota?

	No
 
> 6) How big is your organization (# users, # admins, # unix servers, #
> workstations (PC or otherwise))?

	~ 150 users --- mostly Linux desktops, servers, and
	laptops.
 
> Thanks very much in advance for participating.  
 

	I realize these answer look odd to most corporate
	sysadmins.  We are a Linux support company --- so
	we do things a little "woolier" than the usual
	practice that SAGE members would recommend.


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Jim Dennis                                             jdennis@linuxcare.com
Linuxcare: Linux Corporate Support Team:            http://www.linuxcare.com