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From: gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac-based POP mailers
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.222110.17776@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 22:21:10 GMT
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In article <1991Feb4.144253.1824@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> stoner@mte.ncsu.edu writes:
>We are currently investigating going to a Mac-based POP3 mail server for our
...
>them.  What are your experiences with this and other servers?  Has anybody
>ported the PD servers for Unix to A/UX, and how do they run?  Thanks.

A/UX Mac is a very good standard unix box.  I've got popper (the POP
mail server), rn (network news) with NNTP, of course internet and bitnet
mail, X Windows, gcc and g++ compilers, InterViews X-WIndow library, 
CAP (Columbia AppleTalk Package,including unix-based Appleshare 
fileserver and laserwriter server), and just about any other unix 
goodies that I've tried running fine.

I intend to use my office Mac2ci with large disk as a POP server temporarily
for a department of 300-400 people.  Mail is no big drain on a CPU or disk
so I don't forsee any real problems (call me in a couple months).  For the 
price of a Mac2ci you can also buy a faster unix box (Sun) that might act as a 
better long-term Mac file server + mail post office + network news station 
+ unix program box.  Or you can probably do this all okay on a Mac 2si.  A/UX
takes someone with time and interest to set up all the above software, but 
any competent unix hacker should be able to deal with it.

-- Don


-- 
Don Gilbert    gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405