Re: Email on the Iseries or not

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's like anything else...if the only tool you have is a hammer, then all
> problems must be able to be solved with a hammer. The iSeries is the best
> system on the market for the things it does well...and it does many things
> well...but other boxes do other things better.

Shrug... It's not that the "box" makes a lousy e-mail server, it's that 
the software that's currently available for it is lacking.

If you wrote some good e-mail software for the iSeries, it'd be a great 
box for e-mail because the design (the features provided by SLIC, 
single-level-store, etc) would make that software more robust than the 
same thing running on a PC or Unix platform.

But, as it stands, there's just better software available elsewhere.