Re: Email on the Iseries or not

[Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's like anything else...if the only tool you have is a hammer, then all
problems must be able to be solved with a hammer. The iSeries is the best
system on the market for the things it does well...and it does many things
well...but other boxes do other things better.

On 11/10/05 04:00 PM, "Jeff Rogers" <jeff.rogers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pardon me if this is blasphemy, but I'm NOT religious about the iSeries.
> It's a beautiful machine and OS, and I sincerely love programming on it, but
> if it can't do what needs to be done it had better be improved or it will be
> gone.  Our iSeries does email and it is not easy to troubleshoot.
> (Ducking to dodge a rain of rotten fruit and peanut shells)
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: Email on the Iseries or not
> 
> I think its sad that iSeries professionals can't even recommend solutions
> that are developed for the platform. Domino is an excellent product and is
> well suited for the purpose described. If folks want products on the
> platform to survive they need to use them and recommend them, not to be so
> quick to get folks off the platform
> David Gibbs wrote:
> 
> Personally I would recommend against it.
> 
> I've never really liked email on the iSeries ... and I truly do not like
> Domino (in general).
> 
> I would suggest you take a bare bones machine and install your favorite
> Linux distro on it and set that up as your mail server.
> 
> There are a number of very powerful smtp, pop3, imap, and webmail
> servers available.
> 
> david