[65005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Openwave Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Nov 8 20:08:13 2003
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 20:07:23 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
Cc: "Fisher, Shawn" <SFisher@Bresnan.com>,
"Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
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Rubens Kuhl Jr. writes on 11/8/2003 7:51 PM:
>>Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like
>>us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go.
>
> Outsourcing is usually a good way to get a solution with expertise instead
> of a next->next->finish software installation and license to use it... but
> for ISP use, integration with internal OSS (billing, tech-support etc.)
> seems to be a challenge. Outsourcing costs also keeps most ISPs from using
> such a solution, unless time-to-market is the one and only criteria.
Well - there are ways (such as that the outsourcer only handles the MX
for the domain[s], and then routes all inbound mail to the ISP, who
handles file storage / pop3 / webmail). Or an onsite install of the mta
/ antispam solution etc, updated by the outsourcer (push updates using
rsync, for example) but sitting on racks in the ISP's data center.
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