Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 20:27:43 -72800 (PST) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD misc chating list) Subject: Re: ppp as su & normal user Message-ID: <9601010427.AA07663@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951231215350.22694C-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Dec 31, 95 09:57:47 pm
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> On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Carey Nairn wrote: > > can you believe it...i set up a 2.1.0 box for a firm downtown > that uses microsoft office and their smtp gateway. dedicated 28.8 link > to a local service provider. the smtp gateway box crashed everyday. Not at all. I spent all last year fighting with Microshit's smtp gateway. Runs on only on a MS-DOS box notice. I really get tired of all those zealists telling me how great MS-NT is for TCP/IP networking and Internet service stuff. If it is SO great, why hasn't Microshit written an smtp server for MS-NT??? > thousands of $ in software. installed a 2.1.0 to talk to the service > provider and then send the mail on microsh*t smtp gateway.....no more > crashes. Yep, you got the fix. You have to funnel all smtp mail through a Unix box. Microshit's smtp gateway simply can't take the beating of many hosts pounding on its door with the T-1 connection we had. Since the whole company LAN was connect to the Internet the solultion was either block smtp from the msgates or point the MX records to the Unix box and hack sendmail.cf on the unix machine to attach directly to the ms-gateways by passing MX. :-( > blimey, one computer (2.1.0) to prevent another computer from dying. > and microsh*t is a multi-billion dollar company. sh*t sells. > > bloody unbelieveable. Na, totally believeable in the corporate world. MS is big, they MUST know what they are doing. Yea BS! I just can't understand why people put up with this stuff. Just last night I spoke to an office worker and she was saying how both MS-Word and WordPerfect for Windows running under MS-win3.1 keeps dieing when they write documents. They have to save every 10 minutes to keep their losses at a minimum. No wonder so many people are learning to hate computers. :-) -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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