Hello Thomas, On 10 Dec 2001 at 05:12:17 you wrote (at least in part):
TF> Note the past tense. This was intentionally, as meanwhile software do not need this anymore for there being other ways of mail storing that avoid this. Nevertheless there're still some older systems, and upgrading is a very money and time expensive thing. TF> Is it so expensive, though? In fact it is. You can't take normal PC hardware and build up your server. OK, surely, you can. But that's not what GMX needs for a reliable mail server. You'll need some HA [1] components, build up with redundancies and a lot of server optimized other components. E.g. an Intel Xeon processor instead of your normal P-III as it offers some features that are important for a fast service (like bigger L1-Cache, faster connected to the CPU itself, etc ...). A hardware RAID, reliable and stable fast NIC's, a lot of RAM, etc... This all in pure hardware does cost more than about 5000-1000 US$. Add the software side, and don't calculate only initial cost for buying, but also installation time, administration, configuration to fit in the existing model and you're at 20-30k US$ for a _real_ server. TF> GMX does add the character into mails received via my pro-account. :-( That's a reason to write to them. It may be critical for you to verify signatures and they make this quite impossible with this insert. So _you_ as a aping customer are in a situation to give them hard facts why this have to be changed. What shall a non-paying user tell them? I don't like it? It destroys PGP-signatures and they are important to me? For critical issues I don't rely on a cost-free service, so this is not an argument. But if _you_ ask them to fulfill the service they prove, and that includes 'not alteration of e-mails but receiving and delivering to you as they came in' you can have success (If they care about not loosing a paying customer *g*) :-))) [1] "High Availability" -- Regards Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Bat! v1.54 Beta/14 on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1) Humans: Bet you can't eat just one. -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
