And a great many other things.
Microsoft Mail also has severe security problems: it's not
client/server. To send or receive mail, you need to have full
read/write access to the mailbox you're sending to. (To send external
mail, outside of the local domain, say X.400 or SMTP email, this means
access to the *system* mailbox.) It's quite possible to delete the
whole lot by doing a DELTREE on the servers mail directory.
New versions of course implement Microsoft 'Advanced Security', which
means that whereas before the server mail directory was permanently
mounted as a DOS network drive, now you actually have to type 'MAP M:
//server/mail$' before it lets you do a DELTREE on the drive. (still
no password required.)
>Just one of the many bits of trivia you discover when implementing SMB :-)
Or trying to set up an NT server for mail and fileservice.
John
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