From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 13:40:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aquarius.natey.za.net (m1-48-ctn.dial-up.net [196.34.157.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D6514E9D for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from natey@natey.za.net) Received: from chameleon.natenet.org.za ([192.168.0.45]) by aquarius.natey.za.net with esmtp (Exim 2.053 #1) id 10yXuw-0000cN-00; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:41:34 +0200 Received: from Spooler by chameleon.natenet.org.za (Mercury/32 v2.14); 28 Jun 99 11:41:36 +0200 Received: from spooler by chameleon.natenet.org.za (Mercury/32 v2.14); 26 Jun 99 13:21:12 +0200 Received: from chameleon.natenet.org.za (192.168.0.45) by chameleon.natenet.org.za (Mercury/32 v2.14); 26 Jun 99 13:21:02 +0200 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990626132056.00a74c10@natey.za.net> X-Sender: jacques@natey.za.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:20:56 +0200 To: Fadi Sodah From: Natey Subject: Re: Microsoft-Email Service Runs on FreeBSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3730A931.689B8816@qatar.net.qa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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