From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 19:19:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA10964 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA (maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA [132.206.35.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA10958 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from yves@localhost) by maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA (8.7.1/8.6.10) id WAA23499; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:19:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Yves Lepage Message-Id: <199610190219.WAA23499@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> To: paul@nation-net.com, totii@est.is Subject: Re: M$ mail Cc: questions@freebsd.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, What is think the real question is: One of our depts here runs the M$ SMTP gateway to get mail from the Internet to be delivered to M$ users. The same gateway is also used to deliver to the Internet, mail that's been sent by the M$ users (hence the term: gateway). The problem is, at least with the version that the dept runs, that it is very (make it very E +100000) instable and it can only accept messages with a limited size, which is relatively small (around 32K if you want to make your MTBF > 2 minutes). The original sender of the question must have thought that replacing this gateway with a FreeBSD machine would be a great idea. I can't disagree. Even replacing Paradise Island with FreeBSD would be a great idea. However, the messages in M$ mail queue are encrypted ( I think) and very poor documentation exists about the file formats. For that reason, people have to pay top dollars to have an M$ consultant come in and unjam a stuck mail queue when it happens (hail commercial products). The only non-M$ solution for delivering M$ mail is PMDF, which won't run on a FreeBSD machine as they only make it for Solaris, Open VMS and some other OS, all of which are barely functional (standard disclaimer here). I hope this helps, Yves Lepage