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Re: [LUG] Horribly off-topic



On Tuesday 16 July 2002 14:33, you wrote:
Sorry about this, but does anyone knnow of a mail server that could be used
on the internet connected PC of a M$ Peer to peer network.

We are taling about software, right?

I sell VPOP3 [1] and support it on 3 networks that have proved adequately 
reliable[2].  Recommended NT4WS, you can use W2k, and it integrates to SOPHOS 
antivirus.

It isn't open but it is English.

www.defoam.net/software/vpop3.htm 
There is also NTMail which has a following.  


[1]  lets put it this way, I'm keeping the day job for the foreseeable 
future<g>
[2] On an unfunny note, the LMC ( www.devonlmc.org ) of which I'm a member, 
pressed the now dissolute health authority to include a VPOP3 server in each 
general practice as an _internal_ mail server, back when the plan was that we 
would be provided with Outlook as a mail client (ptui!) and a dialup 
connection to the big Exchange, on whcih we would pay the line charges and 
call charges.  I also reckoned it would keep our mail working.

When the NHS contract with BT and Cable & Wireless was changed (on the basis 
that it wasn't going to sell the service to any of us that knew better, and 
neither would the others pay for it) to a top-slice and to unmetered access 
over our ISDN lines form the surgeries, for whcih I at least am truly 
grateful, the HA quietly modified the deal on VPOP3 in-house MTAs.

When I got to look at one, also, it had carefully or through a lack of 
understanding been st up so it could not see the outside network, and as is 
common practice the passwords had been taken away along with the installation 
media for everything, (and the support contract only ran for the duration of 
the install work!)

Ah well, the resulting system has only fallen over I think 5 times that have 
been admitted, and been rebuilt thrice.

Meanwhile, mine works well enough that I havn't yet gone live on postfix. But 
I could.  Give me a ring or go private email.


-- 
From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
http://www.defoam.net/             

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