It seems to be a good choice except for the service part.... I uses SRVANY (or something like INVOKER) to run as service....
Dirk Bulinckx. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Robert Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:36 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] OT mailserver Although it's been a while since I last used it, I quite liked David Harris' Mercury. http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: Servers Alive Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:11 PM > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: [SA-list] OT mailserver > > > At Woodstone we are internaly running 3 mailservers (SMTP). > > One is used as backup MX record for our domains on the internet (with > their own SMTP servers on the internet), and a 2nd mailserver that is > simply used for outgoing mail (users > mail) and a 3rd mailserver for outgoing mail from the listserver. > > That 3rd server is running the MS SMTP service (that is default with > Windows 2000). We're having a lot of issues with it were it seems OR > not to be able to do the DNS lookup correctly OR not able to connect > to the remote server Or giving relay errors that are not correct. > When doing the same MX lookup via an NSLOOKUP on that system it works > fine, when doing a TELNET <host> 25 from that system it works fine > too, so it's realy a problem with the MS SMTP service as such. So we > would like to replace this MS SMTP service by something else that > works fine. > > What are we exactly looking for? > * SMTP server that can run as service on Win2000 > * It should provide an "interface" that shows the activity of the > server > * it should provide a simple "interface" to do the configuration (if > there is any to do) > * it should be able to send directly (doing MX lookup and send it via > the found server) and also via a SMART HOST. > * it should work :-) > * it should be able to work without any mailbox (we're not having > mailboxes on our internal smtp servers) > * ideal it should be able to have several receiver and sender threads > (ideal even possible to configure the number) > * good pricing :-) > > I could use the same type as we have on the 1st or 2nd SMTP server, > but prefer not to do, so currently we have an "old" > WinRoute mailserver and an ArgoSoft mailserver running. > > > > All suggestions are welcome..... > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office > messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to > the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this > will get you removed from the list. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
