[OT] SendMail in NT
JD Runyan
Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov
Thu Mar 14 22:56:00 CST 2002
Isn't it amazing that MS provides no SMTP service either through ASP, or as a
part of its core OS. I don't mean sendmail quality, I just mean very basic
to send the mail out without thinking much. Makes it hard to use as a server
platform. All of our webservers have to use a Sun box to send their email out
from forms and such.
On Mar 14 16:46, Dustin Decker wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the utilities that your Message Board software wants don't
> > run on NT. Usually, stuff that works with NT is not going to be freeware
> > (or even reasonably-priced-ware). It's going to be very opaque, pay for it
> > and install it before you find out what it does or how it works, and
> > information is going to be hard to come by. You may find it easier to do
> > your work if you can get your hosting transferred to a decent webserver.
>
> Hehe... funny to see this today. I let someone convince me to make a
> brain-dead decision to move to IIS since pretty much everything else
> where I work is M$. We were doing fine until I tried to attack the
> concept of simply (?) sending the contents of a form to our sales force
> from our website.
>
> Well, I certainly never had trouble getting it to work with php - and
> the moment I send this I'm bringing up a new Apache server... screw the
> M$ way, and shame on me for having considered it.
>
> Dustin
>
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JD Runyan
Mid-Range Systems Administrator
USDA NITC Kansas City
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