| NT is good enough that it does the job we want. We have lots of
Solaris around, but I don't know of anyone
| around that uses Solaris/x86 (Solarix86?), and it would cost too much
money to replace the hardware as well as
| the software. I would love to go Unix here, but it probably won't
happen without a 20-point detailed list of
| why NT is inferior to Unix for E-mail serving (do you happen to have
one lying around? :) ).
Four reasons (of around 100 I suppose I could come with, if
nit-picking):
1: I started with Exim 1.7x about 3 years ago and I'm now on 3.03. Each
time bugs have been reported, or enhancements/wishes have lif breathed
into them by Philip or other members of the group, the product's got
better. As is the case for much - if not most - open source software.
Commercial software, including commercial Unix, has a general update
time of 6 months to 2 years between releases.
2: If NT was so great, why would Microsoft use Unix for Hotmail? Why
would ISPs who have to support both NT and Unix always use Unix for
mail?
3: Which NT MTA is as configurable as Exim, exists hand-in-glove with
Hypermail, Majordomo, Mailman, Procmail and many other mail-enhancers?
4: Why does most of the mail our Exim MTA questions, and sometimes
rejects, come from malconfigured NT mailservers ('telnet mail.thingy.com
25'; help)?
| We've had most of
| our problems with the MTA we're currently using (name withheld on
purpose); few can be directly attributed to NT
| (though there have been some). In short, "It ain't gonna happen
anytime soon."
I've got no particular reason for saying so, but I suspect NT as
operating system would break up completely if forced to try and cope
with the hundreds of MBs that our marketing and sales people chuck at
it, and get back, where even Exim on a moderately powered i586 machine
temporarily buckles at the knees. Not Exim itself, but the combination
of hardware and OS.
| If nothing else, using a Unix MTA will give us one more bullet point
on our list of reasons to switch to Unix at
| some point in the future: "Things will work much better natively than
over an 'emulation' layer."
I think that the whole world will be switching back to Unix for Internet
server tasks before long, it's just a question of waiting (look at the
new commercial packets appearing all over the place, e.g. Cobalt). By
doing so, you're at least keeping good company.
Tony
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Bucata <Jason.Bucata@???>
To: Dave C. <djc@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Compiling Exim With Cygwin?
