Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:40:27 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: Andy Cowan <andyc@waverider.net.uk>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exchange Server getting email Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970228193442.493A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970228174340.006c6a00@wrcmail>
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I'll vote for UUCP as well. I routinely see twice the throughput with dialup UUCP vs. TCP/IP. If the only reason a customer connects is for mail, connect time is cut in half and if a connect fails, the user rarely notices. He also doesn't need an IP address. -- Jay On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Robin Melville wrote: -> ->>At 13:57 28/02/97 +0000, you wrote: ->>>On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Rob Simons wrote: ->>>>What I do is tell people to get a UUCP gateway program (I usually ->>> ->>>This gets my vote too. UUCP is so much more efficient for routine batched ->>>mail collection. ->> ->At 15:18 28/02/97 +0000, Andy Cowan wrote: ->>In what way - I'm not disagreeing - just curious. -> ->Routine dial-up mail transfer works well via uucp because it: -> ->* only holds the line open for the duration of the transaction (our average ->is around 5 mins per weekday @ 28kb/s nominal); ->* is a batch transfer protocol, so overheads are low; ->* has been around for ever so is robust; ->* integrates (fairly) easily with most MTAs; ->* doesn't use TCP/IP and so is infinitely more secure; ->* can coexist with autoppp [if we were allowed to which we're not ;)]. -> ->The only downside is latency, because mail only gets exchanged when you poll ->(hourly or whatever). -> ->If we had a full time Internet connection, I'd use SMTP, no question. But ->since we don't, I've served our entire mail domain with uucp at low cost for ->around 18 months with nary a glitch. -> ->Rob. -> ->-------------------------------------------------------- ->Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service ->Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) ->Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 ->Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk ->WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ->--------------------------------------------------------- ->
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