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RE: BMITU


From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett () msmgmt com>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:47:55 -0400



Robert Bridgham wrote:

it runs but even Hotmail.com uses Qmail as it's MTA.  This 
the one of the
leading webmail sites in the world with between 
80-100million accounts, and
still running strong.  I would definitely put my vote to 
Qmail for any
organization, any size!

telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25
Trying 65.54.252.99...
Connected to mx1.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mc5-f7 Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 
5.0.2195.5600 ready at 
  Sat, 6
  Sep 2003 13:51:52 -0700
quit
221 mc5-f7 Service closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.

I wouldn't recommend it myself, but well... ummm, yeah.

-Jack

I can't remember the whole story, but when Microsoft
bought hotmail they converted it to exchange server.
if was using qmail.. and that was very stable...

Later,
J


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