I would look into HMail.
It comes with webmail or you can use a different one, IMAP, POP, SMTP, External accounts, Antivirus (ClamAV), blacklists, MySQL or MSSQL support, web based admin control panel that you can let users use to control thier account, individual domains or the whole server, multihoming, action scripting and more. Oh and it's FREE. A good choice if you have to use MS as your server OS. Now of course it's never been tested for that many email account but I do know of people using it for multiple domains with 1000's of accounts on each domain.
This is right on the nose for the most part. You as an IT worker are there to give managers the knowledge they need to make a decision by educating him on what is needed and how it can/should/will be done. I myself am the "IT Manager" for my company, being a small company I also make up the whole IT staff, so instead of reporting to an IT Manager I report to the president/CEO. This is 10x's worse as he not only doesn't grab on to most of what I'm telling him (even if it's in simple langauge with diagrams) he makes rash decsions without listening or seeing the whole picture. Too many a nights I've gotten a call or email about how he made the decsion on something that I know isn't going to work and I now have to waste my time either making work or undoing whatever it is he did/bought.
OH and to top that off I now have a thinks he "know's it all" CFO who keeps stepping on my toes and speaking for me in after hour meetings that I don't even know about.
I work as IT for a manufacturer, so I know all about the harsh enviroments I have to put some of our equipment in to. Unless the machine is made for such an enviroment, which few really are, I would suggest buying. Most leases will last longer the the machine. We leased and then bought out our servers making migration something that happens on my time. We usually try to work it so we have a "$1" buyout at the end of the lease instead of Fair Market Value.
Also I like to sell off the older equipment to the employees once I have too much of it sitting around. We gain some money back and I get to clean up my area at the same time. Just make sure that you tell them you won't support it in any way, otherwise they'll be banging on your door the 1st time they lose a word document.
HA! I have a vendor that wrote our main software which they are just now upgrading to VB6 from VB3 using Access 2 (2 not 2000) as the DB. I've had to learn new tricks to make my VB6 add-ons work with their stuff.
We just started this weekly meeting thing at my company where I am the head IT "person". I'm really the ONLY person but there is another employee who they feel can do my job if I die. I laugh at this thought because really the only reason they called for these meetings is because I've been accused of "witholding" information. I've told them before though, I didn't pay for my schooling to come and teach someone else who should know how to do this stuff already howdo my job(s). She can complain all she wants, what I do show her is puppy chow. Sorry anyway meetings are good, you can get feedback and give it back as well, if people feel imformed (even if you leave out some details) then there is less complaints and more time for/.
Besides the bad page, are you really going to tell me this guy is doing even close to the $15 million he's sueing for? Hell I just tried going by the site now (4:55p EST) and it's down. I hope they judge has a brain and realizes that there is no way hey was "hurt" this much by any of the websites. Just because your business sucks and isn't making money doesn't mean you can sue people. Hell...if that were true I would have sued every bastard who didn't support my record label! Though if he does win..which would be really really sad, then maybe he can retire and stop giving people headaches with his website.
Like some I was sort of thrown into the IT field at my office because I could talk the talk and walk the walk better then anyone else. So now instead of us having to call some small local company to come fix computers or figure out just what to tell the phone company is wrong with the phone/phonebank, it all falls on me. Recently this year I was the main source of spending enough money on a new high speed line matrix printer as I would have spend on a new 2002 Honda Accord EX. My salary still sucks but that will change soon. I'm the only one there that knows how the new phone, computer system, network and just about everything else that's new works. They have two options, pay me or risk having to hire and train a new person costing well more then the 15k I'm asking for in my raise. Has anyone else had this type of position, where it's not you stuck behind the 8-ball, but your employer?
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I would look into HMail.
It comes with webmail or you can use a different one, IMAP, POP, SMTP, External accounts, Antivirus (ClamAV), blacklists, MySQL or MSSQL support, web based admin control panel that you can let users use to control thier account, individual domains or the whole server, multihoming, action scripting and more. Oh and it's FREE. A good choice if you have to use MS as your server OS. Now of course it's never been tested for that many email account but I do know of people using it for multiple domains with 1000's of accounts on each domain.
You mean cell towers need power? Go figure. Oh and to the morons who are looting New Orleans, YOU'RE WALKING IN TOXIC WATER!
This is right on the nose for the most part. You as an IT worker are there to give managers the knowledge they need to make a decision by educating him on what is needed and how it can/should/will be done. I myself am the "IT Manager" for my company, being a small company I also make up the whole IT staff, so instead of reporting to an IT Manager I report to the president/CEO. This is 10x's worse as he not only doesn't grab on to most of what I'm telling him (even if it's in simple langauge with diagrams) he makes rash decsions without listening or seeing the whole picture. Too many a nights I've gotten a call or email about how he made the decsion on something that I know isn't going to work and I now have to waste my time either making work or undoing whatever it is he did/bought. OH and to top that off I now have a thinks he "know's it all" CFO who keeps stepping on my toes and speaking for me in after hour meetings that I don't even know about.
I work as IT for a manufacturer, so I know all about the harsh enviroments I have to put some of our equipment in to. Unless the machine is made for such an enviroment, which few really are, I would suggest buying. Most leases will last longer the the machine. We leased and then bought out our servers making migration something that happens on my time. We usually try to work it so we have a "$1" buyout at the end of the lease instead of Fair Market Value. Also I like to sell off the older equipment to the employees once I have too much of it sitting around. We gain some money back and I get to clean up my area at the same time. Just make sure that you tell them you won't support it in any way, otherwise they'll be banging on your door the 1st time they lose a word document.
HA! I have a vendor that wrote our main software which they are just now upgrading to VB6 from VB3 using Access 2 (2 not 2000) as the DB. I've had to learn new tricks to make my VB6 add-ons work with their stuff.
We just started this weekly meeting thing at my company where I am the head IT "person". I'm really the ONLY person but there is another employee who they feel can do my job if I die. I laugh at this thought because really the only reason they called for these meetings is because I've been accused of "witholding" information. I've told them before though, I didn't pay for my schooling to come and teach someone else who should know how to do this stuff already howdo my job(s). She can complain all she wants, what I do show her is puppy chow. Sorry anyway meetings are good, you can get feedback and give it back as well, if people feel imformed (even if you leave out some details) then there is less complaints and more time for /.
Besides the bad page, are you really going to tell me this guy is doing even close to the $15 million he's sueing for? Hell I just tried going by the site now (4:55p EST) and it's down. I hope they judge has a brain and realizes that there is no way hey was "hurt" this much by any of the websites. Just because your business sucks and isn't making money doesn't mean you can sue people. Hell...if that were true I would have sued every bastard who didn't support my record label! Though if he does win..which would be really really sad, then maybe he can retire and stop giving people headaches with his website.
Like some I was sort of thrown into the IT field at my office because I could talk the talk and walk the walk better then anyone else. So now instead of us having to call some small local company to come fix computers or figure out just what to tell the phone company is wrong with the phone/phonebank, it all falls on me. Recently this year I was the main source of spending enough money on a new high speed line matrix printer as I would have spend on a new 2002 Honda Accord EX. My salary still sucks but that will change soon. I'm the only one there that knows how the new phone, computer system, network and just about everything else that's new works. They have two options, pay me or risk having to hire and train a new person costing well more then the 15k I'm asking for in my raise. Has anyone else had this type of position, where it's not you stuck behind the 8-ball, but your employer?