[thelist] mail account application

James

If the sticking point is that the site needs to be running
CF, then there's no earthly reason why you need to be
on NT. CF has had a Solaris version for a while, and the
Linux version is at Release Candidate (ie final, final,
final (probably) beta) stage.

And you get very good sendmail-type apps (qmail has
been recommended to me several times and it's
free - http://www.qmail.org) with or for both.

But I wonder whether you'd want the mail server to
sit on the same box as the web/CF box(es - you're
thought of clustering for performance?). Would it not
be far better to have a dedicated mail server? Because
Amanda's right - if the web site goes down, it's massively
annoying, but users will try again later. If the *mail*
goes down, it's a disaster.

Cheers
Martin

Martin Burns
xtn 20867
External tel: 0131 523 0867
mobile: 0793 151 8480
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	James Diggans [SMTP:jdiggans@excelsior-web.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 19, 1999 10:33 PM
> To:	thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	[thelist] mail account application
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> Hey evolters ... I have a client who wishes to offer 'free email
> accounts' a la yahoo or any of a zillion other sites. This site needs
> to be hosted on an NT box (site is built in CF) and as such I'm
> looking for a software product to do mail hosting. I've checked out
> sendmail.net and their commercial NT app is just too expensive (~$10k
> for 5000 accounts) ... has anyone had experience doing this sort of
> thing? If so, what software did you use to handle the mail backend?
> Thanks for any advice ...
> 
> - James
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> James C. Diggans               jdiggans@excelsior-web.com
> Excelsior Technologies, Inc.   http://www.excelsior-web.com
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