From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
>
>> > Hardly surprising to anyone who has used NTMail.
>Personally I think this
>> > has probably got a lot more to do with the hardware and application
>> > software. I honestly can't think of a good mail package
>for NT that a large
>>
>> There is a port of sendmail to NT, so you can get a
>reasonable mail client
>> for nt ;)
>
>1) Sendmail is a mail client? I thought it was an MTA.
>2) Sendmail for NT is _not_ free.
>3) You still need a local post office/delivery agent - Notes, Exchange
>etc.
Actually you can get a version of Sendmail for NT with both MTA and MDA
(POP3 only) included. My problem with that is I don't consider it an
ISP-worthy system unless it supports IMAP.
I don't think 'being free' was a big (enough) selling point for large ISPs,
otherwise Telstra would have just wiped their NT boxes and put Linux (or
xBSD) on them. I'm sure HP cut them a pretty nice support deal for the
changeover, not to mention took the CEO out on a few nice lunches.
Notes and Exchange don't work well with Sendmail because they provide in
themselves MTA and MDA (and an MUA if you want it). Basically I excluded
Notes and Exchange because they provide way more than what an ISP needs and
the license fees would kill the cost structure. Notes/Exchange are good for
what they do, but ISP email isn't part of it.
John Wiltshire
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