Subj : Win2k ban? To : Jay Fuller From : Michael Grant Date : Wed Dec 04 2002 10:16 pm Hello Jay. 04 Dec 02 11:33, you wrote to me: MG>> I don't run IIS, so I use the Mercury/Win32 e-mail server. It's JF> I've been toying with WinRoute here on my Windows 2000 box (and like JF> the features it offers very much, including ip forwarding (how the BBS JF> runs, actually), as well as NAT and its built in email server. I JF> don't know if the email server could support antivirus scans or JF> anything, and I thought having Outlook with a web interface might be JF> nice....but i'm still on the cheap side of things for now.... Mercury has protocal modules that support POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, Finger, PopPass, POP3 distributing services (for polling other POP3 servers) and tight integration with Pegasus Mail, (utilizing user directories) which is another product written by the author of Mercury. It has content control, filtering rules, support for aliases, and full control over SMTP relaying. It's quite full-featured... MG> JF>> Also, how do you feel about the discontinued support for nt-4 MG> JF>> ? MG>> Well, since Win 2000 is in reality Win NT v5.0, I guess it was MG>> inevitable. I must say, for it's age (released in 1996) it sure was MG>> advanced for it's time After struggling with mail hubbing and 24/7 MG>> BBS stuff for a few years with W 95 and then Win 98, I now sure MG>> wished I'd started out with NT in the first place. I tried Linux MG>> along the way, and I liked it, but BBSing under it can pretty get MG>> complicated, while NT is a little more familiar, and older BBS MG>> st will still work under it. JF> I may have to take some time and play around with this package. I'm JF> thinking (soon) I'll be converting my telnetable BBS from win95 (cause JF> it is strictly DOS based and I thought that would be the best JF> implementation for it, since the machine is a 100 mhz machine) to JF> NT-4. Moving to NT 4, though, I'll be changing computers to roughly a JF> 400 mhz. (I believe). I'm still working on it. :) If you want to maintain dial-up with a front end mailer for your BBS, it can get complicated, because fossil support for NT is tricky, and not all DOS mailers work with NT. The problem is that NT handles the passing of the hot comm port radically differently from how Win 9x handles it. NT dynamically assigns the comm port handle on the fly, while it's a set value tied to the comm port number under Win 9x. Argus is one front end that works with NT, and provides a special parameter (%Z) that will work with DOS doors, but I couldn't get Mystic/DOS to work with it. Some Win 32 based BBSes will work for dial up with Win32 based mailers under NT, but not all of them. (And I've been unable to get some Win32 based mailers to work for dial up.) Mystic BBS is one package that has problems, even in the Win 32 version; so I'm stuck having to continue running my BBS under Win 98 until James Coyle releases an updated version. I've heard Maximus and ProBoard will work; not sure about any others. --- GoldED/386 3.0.1-dam3 * Origin: MikE'S MaDHousE: WelComE To ThE AsYluM! (1:134/11) .