[61854] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BMITU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McBurnett, Jim)
Sat Sep 6 21:49:06 2003
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:47:55 -0400
From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
To: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>,
"Robert Bridgham" <rbridgham@hvdata.net>
Cc: "Fisher, Shawn" <SFisher@Bresnan.com>,
"Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Robert Bridgham wrote:
>=20
> > it runs but even Hotmail.com uses Qmail as it's MTA. This=20
> the one of the
> > leading webmail sites in the world with between=20
> 80-100million accounts, and
> > still running strong. I would definitely put my vote to=20
> Qmail for any
> > organization, any size!
> >=20
> 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:=20
> 5.0.2195.5600 ready at=20
> Sat, 6
> Sep 2003 13:51:52 -0700
> quit
> 221 mc5-f7 Service closing transmission channel
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>=20
> I wouldn't recommend it myself, but well... ummm, yeah.
>=20
> -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
