From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 18:52:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA03376 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:52:39 -0800 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03370 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:52:38 -0800 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA04962 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:54:00 -0500 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199503290254.VAA04962@ns1.win.net> Subject: re: Mail... To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:54:00 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 744 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Did your comment mean to imply that an Intel based FreeBSD >>> providing what people would generally think of as acceptable response can >>> support 500 mail accounts? We have a windows based uucp front end called "win net" which handles e-mail and news. We have thousands of customers sending and receiving e-mail and roughly 70% of those subscribe to some subset of usenet news groups. We've recently added a TCP/IP stack onto this product so that we have an offline mail/news reader plus on-line web junk ect. It is doable - and you might be surprised. FreeBSD is actually a bit faster than some of the commercial Unix OS that we experimented with as platforms for our service. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net