Re: OT: Mail Servers

[anita@xxxxxxxxx (Anita Holmgren)]

At 5:00 PM -0600 12/5/02, Juergen Schreck wrote:
> >  Juergen, a version of Post.Office with SMTP-Auth will be available
> >  very shortly.
>
> Ah! Sounds fabulous! I hope it's not just plain text though...

No. Encrypted.

>  > Post.Office is being used world-wide on NT and Solaris, with great
> >  success.  It is very robust and performs very well.
>
> Oh? I thought the original developer had abandoned the product and you
> picked it up? What's the story here? Is tenon maintaining the code or is
> another company. I mean - Tenon doesn't provide development or support for
> Solaris or NT, do they?

Our partner in Japan, Open Technologies, maintains the code.  Tenon 
ported Post.Office to Mac OS X and we (and OTC) are making extensions 
and enhancements.  Tenon is considering providing support for 
Solaris. (This would be technical support only; we have no rights or 
intentions to extend Post.Office on any platform other than Mac OS X.)

> >  trouble.  But, as you can also see, we have been very attentive to
> >  these issues and very fast with solutions (perhaps a bit too fast
> >  :-)).
>
> Perhaps. But see above. It hurts no matter whether it takes long to fix or
> not. Server down is server down. Or does the PO license allow 2
> installations so one can switch back and forth?

You can set up an additional Post.Office system on a second machine 
with no mail accounts.  This second system simply acts as a forwarder 
for your domains. Since it  doesn't have mail accounts, it doesn't 
need a license.  If your real mail server is down the back up 
forwarder will hold the mail. That way no mail bounces and you don't 
lose any mail during a temporary outage.

But the bottom line is that a simple Post.Office update shouldn't 
cause an outage.  We are in the process of correcting our update 
proceedures.

-Anita
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