8/13 Q: Is there any special knowledge required to set up an
exchange+IMAP server? A friend of a friend wants to pay me to do
it, and I'm wondering how much I need to know to look like I've
done it before. I've installed and dealt with qmail and sendmail.
\_ Not really if you can click a mouse, navigate a gui and have
half a brain for a standard setup. Just don't let him stand over
your shoulder. You *do* charge extra for training, right?
\_ if you want to be really cool, don't expose the exchange
server to the public internet, put a unix box with a mta
in front of it and have it relay mail to the exchange server
for future processing so you don't get immediately hacked. - danh
\_ no, that's a second and larger unrelated project which his
client will have to pay extra for. stop selling out IT on
the cheap.
\_ any monkey can set it up. that's the easy part. the hard part
is support/maintenance/security. That's why you shouldnt even
get involved, because it's a time-suck.
\_ nonononono, the idea is you get more money each time he has to
call for more help. he's not doing this free. it's for a
small business. as an FTE I don't *ever* touch any windows
servers and the only WS I touch is my own. as a consultant
I ***loooooove*** microsoft. nothing says "I love you!" to
my bank account like repeat business from my MS using clients. |
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