RE: Email on the Iseries or not

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a huge believer in the iSeries, as my previous posts will confirm, but 
I would ask this question Jeff, does the i do anything easily? 
LOL.....meaning you cannot point and click to get an answer.....I struggle 
every day with it, but in the end it has and will continue to make my life 
easier.


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:00:30 -0600, Jeff Rogers 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
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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
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