Other Possibilities

There are almost limitless possibilities for what the MTA can be configured to accomplish. Some additional functions that customers and Sun Professional Services have added include integration with fax gateways, which require document conversion to TIFF format, as well as the addition of a custom channel (for example, FAX).

Other functions include outbound paging and support for Blackberry RIM devices.

As you would expect, using the conversion channel and performing advanced MTA configuration can open up a significant number of possibilities with the Messaging Server. The caveat here is that anything you add to the process requires additional CPU and memory resources, and potentially additional storage. As with any program ...

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