Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:53:14 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Natey' <natey@natey.za.net>, Fadi Sodah <sodah@qatar.net.qa> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Microsoft-Email Service Runs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A74@site2s1>
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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 <natey@ethereal.natey.za.net>; 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 <xxxxxxxx>; xxx, xx xxx 1999 xx:xx:xx -0800 > Message-ID: <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@RED-MSG-50> > > 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
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