RUNNING A MAIL SERVER

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   Hi! If you download the free upgrade for NT Server from Microsoft, the 
   Option Pack, you will receive, as part of the package, a free Internet Mail 
   server. I'm not using it, since it won't benefit my library at my 
   institution, but it looks fairly full featured.
      The download is fairly large, 40-50+ MB, but it does include a number of 
   worthwhile upgrades to NT Server.
   
   --Richard
   
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Subject: RUNNING A MAIL SERVER 
Author:  <amutch at tln.lib.mi.us> at SMTP
Date:    7/17/98 10:11 AM

Hi all,
   
We recently learned that our ISP, which had previously provided our e-mail 
services for no charge will now be charging us $85 per account.  Since we 
have over 30 accounts, this is a substantial charge for us.  Since I've 
already been planning on migrating our web pages to our own server, I was 
thinking that I should probably explore doing the same with our mail 
services.  I've just been doing a little bit of research and the software 
available runs in the $600 -- $1500 range so we would save money by doing 
it ourselves but how difficult is this to do?  
   
For those running your own mail services, how difficult is it to do?  What 
products would you recommend.  Is this more trouble than it is worth?
We run NT Server 4.0 on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with 128 MB RAM so NT 
product recommendations please!
   
Thanks,
   
Andrew Mutch
Northville District Library
Northville, MI