On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, at 10:27AM, Aram Fingal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> This is going to be my communications gateway (SMTP, fax, local talk >> bridge) and sit behind a Linksys Router/Firewall. I figured to use >> the Rocket for the networking side, so I'm even wondering if I need >> the 128MB RAM on the system board. Would it be more prudent to put >> that RAM on the Rocket and simply 32MB on the system board? > > >I have used SIMS (the freeware version of Communigate SMTP Server) on a >68k Mac with 16MB RAM from behind a D-Link Router/Firewall on an ADSL >connection and it works very well. Unfortunately it seems to have >fallen behind in the communication protocol version relative to other >servers. Your mail may or may not go through. Also, with any SMTP >server of your own, you will be blocked from sending to AOL and some >other ISP's. They do a reverse DNS lookup to see if the upstream >server is on a dynamically assigned IP address and reject the message >as spam if it is. > I was looking at that software as well. I figured to purchase a domain, but if the SIMS isn't RFC compliant anymore, I'm not sure I'll need the SMTP software. >Local talk bridge doesn't take much RAM at all, I think. Good to know. Probably could run that from the system side anyway for I/O. > >The fax bit is where you may need some RAM, depending on how the >software handles things. If it insists on caching the whole fax to RAM >every time, and you can't change that behavior in preferences, you may >get an error of type -108 every time someone sends you a fax that's >bigger than the amount of RAM assigned to your fax software (as >configured in the "get info" window). This would most likely only be >the case if the fax software is intended for state of the art computers >which are now often shipping with 256MB or more RAM and have virtual >memory on by default. You should use fax software that has it's own >capacity to spool to disk and, if you have the SCSI II daughter card on >your rocket, use an external HD connected to that. > Unfortunately, no daughter boards were installed. It sounds as if the 128 should go on the system board for all of the I/O functions (localtalk, fax, printing) and leave 32 on the Rocket for apps like word processing and the like. >-Aram Thanks a bunch! Jack -- Rocketeer is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Rocketeer list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/rocketeer.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/rocketeer%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
