Hello Jay.

06 Dec 02 16:13, you wrote to me:

 MG>> Mercury has protocal modules that support POP3, SMTP, IMAP4,
 MG>> Finger, PopPass, POP3 distributing services (for polling other
 MG>> POP3 servers) and tight integration with Pegasus Mail,
 MG>> (utilizing user directories) which is another product written
 MG>> by the author of Mercury. It has content control, filtering
 MG>> rules, support for aliases, and full control over SMTP
 MG>> relaying. It's quite full-featured...

 JF> no kidding....geez.

If you want to check it out, go to www.pmail.com. There is no web interface
for it, however.

 MG>> If you want to maintain dial-up with a front end mailer for your
 MG>> BBS, it can get complicated, because fossil support for NT is
 MG>> tricky, and not all DOS mailers work with NT. The problem is that
 MG>> NT handles the passing of the hot comm port radically differently
 MG>> from how Win 9x handles it. NT dynamically assigns the comm port
 MG>> handle on the fly, while it's a set value tied to the comm port
 MG>> number under Win 9x.

 JF> Mine's UltraBBS.  Long discontinued, but I love the software (and
 JF> helped test it during development).  It doesn't matter to me, though,
 JF> worst case scanario, I'll leave the 486 intact and just run another
 JF> 400 mhz box networked to the BBS files and run it that way....[so it'd
 JF> be on two machines]

If you can use the NT machine as a server, and route all incoming calls on
port 23 to the BBS machine, it can work well; I've heard of others who have
had a similar setup that worked well for them. However, since my NT machine
is primarily an IP based mail hub that has nothing to do with my BBS (other
than being a mail uplink for it), I need to use two different domain names
for my two different machines; so it's not a good solution for me.


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