[thelist] mail account application

If the choices are
1) Pay for one NT box and vast amounts of cash for an NT sendmail
2) Pay for one NT box and small amounts of cash for a Linux box which has
sendmail for free, and will be more robust because you're moving the mail
app off the web server box

which seems the obvious choice?

That said, there are some nice things you can do with Exchange if it's on
the same box as IIS, using CDO.

Cheers
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:	Tuesday, December 21, 1999 4:05 AM
> To:	thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	RE: [thelist] mail account application
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> > 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.
> 
> True, but I have no experience on Solaris boxes (only NT, IRIX and
> Linux) and this site unfortunately has a very short development time
> period so I'm having to stick with what I know for most of the site.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Normally no, I know it's a terrible idea, but the client isn't willing
> to spring for more than one box at this point so I'm kind of stuck
> between a rock and a hard place. If his site does well he's willing to
> put some more servers up for clustering and offloading of tasks (DB,
> mail, etc) but at this point his capital just won't cover that. This
> business gets rough when the client starts dictating limitations and
> the list of limitations is longer than the feature list ... what's an
> IT guy to do? Thanks for the advice ...
> 
> - jc
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> James C. Diggans               jdiggans@excelsior-web.com
> Excelsior Technologies, Inc.   http://www.excelsior-web.com
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