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[Cliff Pratt]

Mark Foster wrote:
> 
>>> Its still a practical solution for small businesses and home 
>>> connections, though, as it allows you to use ISP provided services 
>>> and retain some level of reliability over-and-above what you can 
>>> achieve at home...
>>>
>> That problem only relates to SBS, not the full MS Exchange, which 
>> doesn't come with a POP3 connector. There are a number of third party 
>> POP3 connectors for MS Exchange (full version) which may or may not 
>> suffer from this problem. Also that patch is more than 2 years old, so 
>> it's a bit much to raise it now.
> 
> Yes Cliff. I was using it as an example of what 'could' happen.
> 
> At the time I wrote that article - and you can see its date - I was 
> working for Xtra, who had a number of customers hit very hard. 
> Interestingly the patch had already been out a few months when it 
> suddenly did the rounds here as a major issue, indicating some severely 
> lax patch-management schema amongst small-to-medium-sized businesses 
> affected. And many other companies wound up paying through the nose.
> 
> (I've not worked for Xtra for more than 2 years now, so yes, it is a bit 
> dated, but still interesting and somewhat illustrative of what can 
> happen, or so I thought.)
> 
OK, That was a bit harsh of me. I'm OS-agnostic, I admit. But I didn't 
see the point in slagging off MS Exchange when the problem, as stated, 
was with fetchmail! Especially as I was not convinced that the problem 
was MS Exchange's fault - I've used third party POP3 connectors...

Signing off on this subject!! Point made.

Cheers,

Cliff