Re: email recommend

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It scares me that "400 server" and "NT Exchange" are the only
two options that have come to mind.   

NT Exchange is an AWFUL e-mail server (at least for Internet mail)
it tends to mess up messages so that only people running Exchange
client or Outlook can read them. :)

The BEST solution, IMHO, is some variant of UNIX running Sendmail
(or QMail if you dont like Sendmail)   Its far more widely used
than both the AS/400's server and MS Exchange combined.

In fact, until just recently, Microsoft's own hotmail.com was
running on FreeBSD (the variant of Unix that I use) 

I don't know about the AS/400 mail server to really comment on it... 
I wrote my own E-mail system for the AS/400.  (Though its buggy, and
I keep wishing I hadn't written it... grrr)

For a small shop -- ISP hosted mail is fine.  Especially so if you
don't feel like having a tech staff.   (Though, with either AS/400
or UNIX you could use TELNET to remotely administer the server)


On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jim Franz wrote:

> Searching the wisdom of the group.
> Looking for an email server for a number of 
> small shops. Smallest AS400s, 5-20 users,
> no technical staff, no one with any network
> experience, most have no NT.
> The native mail server scares me (after seeing
> all the posts here). Thought a 400 server 
> would be more stable than NT Exchange, or 
> would they be better with ISP hosted mail?
> Must be non-tech user maintainable after setup
> (or am I dreaming)?
> jim
> 

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