Re: MetaInfo? Was: BIND8 Update

Jason Hess ( jjhess@laf.cioe.com )
Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:48:24 -0400

J. William Semich wrote:
>
> I'll bite -- where do you get metinfo's server and why is it better?
>
> Bill Semich
>
> >Why even worry about it? MetaInfo's server is 100% better.
> >
> >Adam
> >
> >
> >At 11:59 PM 6/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >>Received from software.com tech support:
> >>
> >>---
> >> The latest port available from the web site is BIND 4.9.5. We do not
> >>currently have plans for releasing BIND 8.
> >>
> >>I hope this is helpful...
> >>Support@Software.com
> >>---
> >>
> >>Kevin
> >>---------------------------------------------
> >>Kevin C. Miller, CEO
> >>FreshWater, Inc.
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Man do I have to back this one. MetaInfo has really got the crap
going. I absolutely love their products for NT. They are reasonably
priced, have great GUI interfaces, and NEVER need managed. Although we
skipped on the DNS (still using NT's DNS Manager), we are using their
Sendmail/POP3 which is incredible. We are using as an interoffice mailer
where everybody has an account on NT. When setting it up (the whopping
10 minutes that it takes), it asks "would you like to use your current
NT user database?" If you choose yes, done deal. It automatically uses
the user database as entries. If I have DNS for mydomain.com on my
machine and a username "jason" exists, then I can "automagically" send
mail to jason@mydomain.com. Beautiful.
The new version (3.0) also has GUI interfaces for maillists, forwards,
and aliases...you should give it a shot. The URL is (you guessed it)
http://www.metainfo.com....

Happy mailing,
Jason Hess
Assistant Systems Administrator
CIOE Corporation