From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 15:25:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from csudsu.com (clockwork.csudsu.com [209.0.50.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB0F14E49 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by csudsu.com (8.8.8/1.3.2) with SMTP id PAA06603; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Stefan Molnar To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "'Natey'" , Fadi Sodah , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Microsoft-Email Service Runs on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A74@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hotmail does run on freebsd/solaris. freebsd for the web server and solaris for the email server. If any of you goto exdous, you will see that. There are many many e4500 in their cage. Don't just don't belive everything you read in a SMTP header. On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message