From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 14:51:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31BA14BFF for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <3DAYSCAB>; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:51:12 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A74@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Natey' , Fadi Sodah Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Microsoft-Email Service Runs on FreeBSD Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:53:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The rumor was that HOTMAIL ran on FreeBSD and Solaris machines, not microsoft.com's e-mail servers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Natey [SMTP:natey@natey.za.net] > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 7:21 AM > To: Fadi Sodah > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Microsoft-Email Service Runs on FreeBSD > > At 11:25 PM 99/05/05 +0300, you wrote: > Hi there, > > I hate to inform you that this rumour has no truth. They do infact run NT > servers for their e-mail services -- see the headers from a message set > from within Microsoft. They do have a few NetWare servers from what I > have > heard. ;-) I have replaced some of the stuff with xxxx's for some > reasons. > > Received: from ethereal.natey.za.net ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) > by aquarius.natey.za.net with esmtp (Exim 2.053+jm #2) > id 10xp8j-0006O7-00 > for jacques@natey.za.net; xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx +0200 > Received: from ethereal.natey.za.net ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) > by aquarius.natey.za.net with esmtp (Exim 2.053+jm #5) > id 10xo7Z-0006O7-00 > for natey@natey.za.net; xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx +0200 > Received: from mail3.microsoft.com (inet-vrs-03.microsoft.com > [103.107.3.103]) > by ethereal.natey.za.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA29557 > for ; xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx +0200 > (SAST) > (envelope-from xxxxxxxxxxx@microsoft.com) > Received: from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by mail3.microsoft.com (InterScan E-Mail > VirusWall NT); xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) > Received: by INET-IMC-03 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2524.0) > id ; xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx -0800 > Message-ID: > > If you have a look at it this way they have about 10+ NT boxxies (with > 256Mb RAM) for their mailservice compared to one NetWare server running > Groupwise (with 128Mb RAM), compared to one NetWare Server running Mecury > MTS (with 128Mb RAM), compared to two FreeBSD Servers running exim (with > 32Mb RAM each). ;-) Well one of my clients has a NT machine with 256Mb > RAM > in compared to having 128Mb if they were to run a NetWare server running > Groupwise, or a FreeBSD Server. > > Regards > Natey > > >hi > > > >i found this :-) > > > >-----------------------//----------- > >Microsoft-Owned Email Service Runs on FreeBSD, Apache > >The Register notes what many BSD advocates already knew. > >What's noteworthy is the speculation that > >NT/IIS wasn't used because Microsoft couldn't make it > >scale to handle the demand. Note the article appears > >indicate that they're using FreeBSD on a SPARC. FreeBSD > >is used to serve the web pages and Solaris is used for > >the mail servers. > > --NH > >Ref: ->> http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/news.html > > > >-------------//---------------- > > > >-pons > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message