Sh'mae The, On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, at 13:25:33 [GMT -0700] (or 21:25 in Wales) regarding 'Running TB as an NT/ XP service' you wrote:
MW> Adam- MW> Don't get me wrong here - I have been using TB in exactly this MW> situation for a few years now and it works great. Provides local MW> interoffice email as well as the client/server functionality I need. I MW> *am* making the case for being able to serverize (er...I don't think MW> that's a word)some of TB's functionality. Using TB! in this way is fine, but using a client as a server will mean limitations.... MW> The problem with Mercury is that it's strictly a server. I need to MW> pick up mail from multiple accounts with multiple ISPs and keep it in MW> a central place where the workstations can get to it. That's an MUA MW> function and Mercury won't do that. Its a MTA function - lots of mailservers will do that. cf. fetchmail on Linux boxes. I use fetchmail in conjunction with qmail to collect 20+ accounts here MW> The only alternative I know of to The Bat running in server mode is MW> Microsoft Exchange Server, and I always warn clients that it's clumsy MW> and expensive and really requires a full-time system admin to run MW> BackOffice and it really should be on its own machine. EXCHANGE...argggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I administer an Exchange server in work a! -- | 01 September 2002, 00:13 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://new-wales.net | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- PGP Public Key Request | I read the FM, and it didn't work. Email traffic scanned with AntiVir Mail Gateway for Linux ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
