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Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers



on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:26:07PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans (frodo@morgul.net) wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:13PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> > As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating
> > their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever it´s
> > called. Search on slashdot&friends along the last security-debacles
> > there, that´s where I got it.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > &rw
> > 
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:07:51 MST, user list writes:
> > > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS
> > > exchange se rvers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true?
> > > If so, is this well known ? we are fighting a guerrilla action
> > > over this where I work. I'm on a unix ser ver that never has
> > > problems while the rest of the institution runs on exchange
> > > servers that are about as reliable as power in California.

> This is correct.  They used to run on FreeBSD.  When MS bought hotmail
> they tried switching them to NT4, but it fell over horribly under the
> load.  Apparently Win2k is actually an improvement over NT4, as
> according to recent Netcraft surveys they were actually able to switch
> from BSD to 2k.  Unfortunately I was not able to locate the story on
> netcraft.com during a quick search while writing this message.

Partial switchover, last I heard, but that's hearsay.

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