[OT] SendMail in NT

[Dustin Decker]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, JD Runyan wrote:

> Isn't it amazing that MS provides no SMTP service either through ASP, or as a
> part of its core OS.  I don't mean sendmail quality, I just mean very basic
> to send the mail out without thinking much.  Makes it hard to use as a server
> platform.  All of our webservers have to use a Sun box to send their email out
> from forms and such.

It's almost funny really, considering most of the other brain-dead stuff
they do is in the interest of "ease of use" and the like.  Maybe we
should be thankful for this - who knows.  :)
Dustin

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