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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 17:37:51 GMT
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- From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Mail User agents
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- > You certainly cannot connect 350-400 mac's to a file server. The cost
- > of installing 3 (100 Mac users per server) additional Novell file servers
- > would be slightly prohibitive.
-
- This is the major reason in my mind why the PC mail solutions are all inadequate
- .
- They all try to base the mail transport on file services, which simply cannot
- scale adequately. With mail services you need connectivity to millions of
- hosts, not dozens. SMTP based on a host to host wire protocol easily handles
- a million hosts today (Internet). Try doing that if SMTP were replaced with
- something like BSMTP on NFS. And even if you did it, who'd manage the
- 100,000 post offices? In a worldwide network it could never work. A large
- multi-national corporation isn't much different.
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- Most of the PC mail packages can interconnect post offices with a wire protocol,
- but the narrow-minded designers chose proprietary protocols -- mainly designed
- to run over dial-up lines. Just try getting information on anything at that
- level (the level at which we would prefer to speak to the things).
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
-