Does your own company email compete (response pt 2)
Tags :Rant
Yes, there was so much more on this
topic three days ago. On
top today is Philip Storry's comments
Philip stated I am comparing Apples to
Oranges. In certain parts he is absolutely correct. As for
where we may or may not disagree ---- I was going after a special part
of the whole comparison. Not the feature of the email client itself,
but the feature of the public systems that enterprises themselves do not
provide anymore for 'cost justifications'. The standard virus example
stands here. Management takes notice when machines or servers are
down (or worse you have to take the network down since it becomes flooded
with useless packets screaming around like a $1 sale and $30 in their pockets).
What do they do when they take notice? Yell at someone for
not have the proper virus software installed that they of course have not
authorized for purchase. You have danced, skipped, brought in doughnuts
to meetings. All to no avail. But the Yahoo you use with 100MB?
Well they had the signatures updated pronto since they scan the email.
Even on upload of the attachments. So I would say I was comparing
Grapefruits to Tangelo's
(a hybrid tangerine and grapefruit, not oranges like some think).
There are portions the same but not all. We could go into an
example of spam filters but you get the idea. I blocked more spam
with Yahoo! than I did with Domino, until Domino 6 and SpamJam combined
together on our system (meaning blacklists and rules with SpamJam).
But before you say you were talking only
storage you do point out that they may be accessing over a slow link. Well
with some there is the ability to POP, so there is the off-line mode for
that. Plus the scanning takes place before download, which is good
for the user right?
I digress. You made some great points
in your reply though. I do think that most webmail accounts are not
or under used. They get created on the fly with new accounts and
people forget or don't log in. So Hotmail deletes the mail after
30 days if no login at all. Not a bad idea for free webmail. If
you use it you get the space. If not, you have a mailfile, but retention
is gone.
Lastly clustering. No one says you
have to cluster every mailfile of every user to all three servers. How
about that policy that states maifiles under XX will only go on two servers?
Heavy users get all three? Or something of the like. You
show redundancy and don't sacrifice as much disk space loss. Downtime
isn't an issue then since it is a cluster right? They just fail over
and never know the difference as you work on one server at a time. Backups
are still one server or a partial. Divide the user mail directory
on different servers in subdirectories to ease backup administration.
Whew, it is late isn't it?
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On Thursday, July 15th, 2004 by Chris Miller
