[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mailservers and clients that work on OI

[Jerry Kemp]

Not that it needs confirming, but I can 2nd Jim's comments.

A few years back I did a 3 year contract at a very large telco.  If you used 
your telco provided email account (i.e. either cell phone/mobile device or 
broadband) your email lives and is processed both by Sparc based Sun/Oracle 
servers using (what ever is the current name is this year) the Sun/Oracle email 
server.

It was a very interesting job.  They had originally started using large SGI Irix 
based systems (using a different email solution), then did a brief migration to 
linux, then from linux to Solaris.

Although no longer in production by the time I arrived, this was the last point 
in my career that I was able to used Silicon Graphics equipment.

Jerry


>> Even Oracle doesn't offer mailserversolutions for Solaris.
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> Not quite true, the last I checked, Sun Mail Server (nee Netscape mail, then Java CommSuite, now OCUCS) lives on and produces new versions.
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> My old job supported it for a number of ccustomers with my hands, a pretty good product. Although in Oracle hands it is now only paid-for, and with a minimal purchase baseline so it is aimed at providers or very large organizations. Things are negotiatable but it is difficult.
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> Jim
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