RE: $ (was: Re: Looooong time for messages to come thruonMidrange-L)

David uses MailMan to run the lists.  And SpamAssasin.

And while I wouldn't use IBM's SMTP server to run the lists (even if
you could), Stalkers product (CommunicatePro) also runs on the AS400
and would handle the volume just fine!

But, he would loose some functionality using CGP vs MailMan.  But who
knows, perhaps mailman is available under AIX?

I suspect the biggest issue is just the cost of the AS/400.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: $ (was: Re: Looooong time for messages to come thru
> onMidrange-L)
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Booth Martin wrote:
> 
> > It sure would be nice if someone could ring Anne Lucas's bell and
> get
> > someone at IBM interested enough so that David could show us how to
> do
> > midrange.com on an iSeries.
> >
> > We ought to eat our own cooking.
> 
> Except that the software that runs midrange.com doesn't exist on the
> iSeries.  David uses sendmail with SpamAssasin.  Whatever spam
> filtering
> software exists for the iSeries probably isn't as cheap (sendmail and
> SpamAssasin are free).  And honestly, judging by the number of posts
> on
> this list about the iSeries SMTP server, I don't think that the
> iSeries is
> a very good mail server.
> 
> Eating your own cooking (or eating your own dogfood) does not always
> mean
> ignore the rule "use the best tool for the job".
> 
> James Rich
> 
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