If these boxes are dedicated for email, why on earth are they running
NT anyway? You should just queue off any mail they currently have, and
install an OS more suited to the task of handling Internet email. You
can either use a free OS such as Linux or Free/Open/Net BSD, which the
budget department will like, or if the PHB's want a 'commercial' OS
with someone they can sue, SCO and Solaris are two I can think of.
NT is probably about the WORST platform to handle Internet email on. I
think even Macs are better, although I have no experience with Mac
email. Using a unix MTA on an NT box is only half right - why not be
100% right and go with a unix platform and a real MTA?
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jason Bucata wrote:
> I'm interested in running either Sendmail or Exim on some NT boxen we have
> dedicated for E-mail use. How much effort would be involved in getting Exim
> to compile on NT using Cygwin? What kind of performance might I expect?
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> I'm advocating to our team a Unix MTA instead of a closed-source NT-based
> MTA, which is what we're wanting to replace in the first place. I really
> like the idea of having the source so we can tweak it to do *exactly* what
> we want. (Oh, and the price is right ;).)
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> I've already asked on the Cygwin mailing list, about both Sendmail and Exim,
> but haven't heard anything about Exim there yet. (Some people have done it
> with Sendmail already; there are some patches floating about.) I'm
> interested in hearing the balanced perspective, especially since I'm not
> sure which of the two I (or anybody else involved with this!) would prefer.
>
> Jason B.
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