I know this is not the place to ask this, but what are other good options
to run for mail other then Sims?  For OS 9 or OS X?

Jeff



>On 08/11/03 at 17:35 -0700, Jeff Logan opined:
>
>> You can buy a 6100/66 for about $40, and away you go.   Our Sims
>> server runs on OS 9.1 and sends 20,000 messages a day without any
>> problems and is only used for SMTP.
>
>I don't dispute the viability and affordability of SIMS -- it's an
>excellent solution that I've been using successfully and happily for a long
>time on a 6150/66 that would otherwise have become a boat anchor years ago.
>I was only chafing a bit at the suggestion that no SIMS user would ever
>want, or be able, to run an open source *nix mail solution under OS X (of
>which sendmail is only one). I'm just saying, as good as it is, SIMS isn't
>the only good solution. If you can get past the irrational CLI/text config
>heebie jeebies that some long-time Mac people seem to have, running some of
>the excellent *nix MTAs really isn't all that much more difficult than
>running SIMS.
>
>> >On 08/12/03 at 09:48 +1000, Wayne Irvine opined:
>> >
>> >> > Is anyone running sims in classic?  Is it a good or bad idea?
>> >[snip]
>> >> And the alternative is OS X and a commercial mail program (I mean
>> >> it's not like a Mac/SIMS user cold ever use Sendmail ;) )
>> >
>> >Speak for yourself. There are plenty of non-commercial alternatives.
>> >They may not all have the exact feature set that we've come to know
>> >and love (some of them even have features that SIMS lacks  ;-] ).
>> >And not everyone has a spare box lying around that can be dedicated
>> >running classical MacOS just for SIMS.
>> >
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