I host a very large web site on my RedHat box, and it does an ODBC connection to SQL2000 on the Windows machine. Works like a charm, and very stable. It also runs CF 5.0 just fine.
===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Heald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: RE: Freeware mail servers | Thanks for all the advice people. I will look into them when I get home tonight. | | I really want to run a Linux box eventually, but until I can run my licenses for CF and SQL Server on them I will have to stick with M$ products :) | | Thanks | Tim | | -----Original Message----- | From: samcfug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:45 PM | To: CF-Talk | Subject: Re: Freeware mail servers | | | Tim | I have not found a freeware mail server for the Windows platform, but I have | both a Windows server and a Linux server, and on the Linux box, both of the very | popular Sendmail and Postfix are open source (free) and both are very easily | configurable for anti-spam and anti-virus scanning. There are even several very | good open source anti-virus programs for the Linux box as well. | | On a Windows Box, I run Imail 7.0 which is getting more expensive with each | upgrade, but is a lot easier to administer than, say Exchange. | | I purchased RedHat 7.3 from Best Buy for $49.00. While the software is open | source, the purchase gives me a year of free updates, and that is really | convenient. The Sendmail and PostFix mail servers (as well as apache and a | couple of database products) are installed by default. | I use Webmin for remote administration. | | For a windows FTP server I use SERV-U | | | ===================================== | Douglas White | group Manager | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.samcfug.org | ===================================== | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Timothy Heald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:22 AM | Subject: OT: Freeware mail servers | | | | Howdy. | | | | I am running a server at my house (adsl, speak easy, sweet) I have all the | server software I want except for a mail server. I am looking for something, | free, runs on Windows 2000 AS, and has a GUI for admin (don't want to learn a | whole bunch of command line junk, yeah I am lazy, I know). Also a decent | freeware FTP server would be nice, I am using IIS FTP and it is junk. | | | | Thanks, | | | | Timothy Heald | | Assistant Webmaster | | Overseas Security Advisory Council | | U.S. Department of State | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com