On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> >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.
Wow. Must be a different one to the one I saw. I guess there's _multiple_
sendmail "distributions" for NT, huh? Isn't that just typically microsoft?
:-)
> 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.
Ziggy Swastika {or however you spell his last name} does not do lunches.
He's too busy cutting costs to enjoy himself. :_)
But yes, I'm pretty sure HP cut them a huge deal on support. And maybe a
good piece for hardware, too.
> 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.
Hmmm. I found it much easier to dump the built in notes MTA {because it
had an inherent limit on the number of threads}, and just use it as an
MDA, letting sendmail be the MTA.
The Notes MDA could only process I think 5 threads at a time - which meant
large bottlenecks at the place I was working. From memory, the sendmail
implimentation used had no such limit - it could process more multiple
incoming mail connections than the Notes MTA could.
I could be wrong - it was a while ago, and I was kinda peripheral to the
whole process.
DaZZa
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