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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 05:49:17 -0500
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
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jf@jdeal-form.com wrote:

> Would like to bring internet e-mail to every PC on the network, and
> since we have already a faxmodem linked to the server (Multitech ZDX)
> it could be easy to bring those services aboard.

> Read all the FAQs and pages about Exim, PPP, Morningstar, Sendmail,
> MMDF....   more puzzled.
> They all say what to do to install, but nothing is really helpful on
> what to choose.

You can do this easily with SCO or Linux.  See
/Unixart/mail.html for starts.

But a couple of issues:

> 1- Keep a copy of all outgoing and ingoing mail on the server (IMAP ?)

Yeah, you could, but the mail files are going to get large
and will be unorganized.  Using Visionfs, you can give the
users file sapace for the folders they want to save,
organized as they want them.

> 2- Poll the Net for mail 2-3 times a day

You'll probably use "fetchmail" or something like it.  But
you also need to be concerned about the outgoing side:
people sending mail.  Should that also go out only two or
three times a day?  If it's that infrequent, you'll probably
not want to rely upon the good humor of sendmail or mmdf to
patiently await their chance to send; you'll want to fire
them up to process their queues when you do make the
connection.

> 3- Use PC software (Eudora) as mail interface

Fine- Eudora, Netscape, Outlook, pop or imap, doesn't
matter- it will all work.

> 4- Some good advise (common sense) on what to do

If you are feeling totally illiterate on this, you might
want to consider using a commercial product like Fineline's
Mail Manager ( which is also mentioned in the "mail" article
referred to above ).  It does nothing you can't do by hand,
but it does package it all up at a reasonable price, has
good logging, a simple management interface, etc.

> 5- Avoiding *any* threat to our data safety.

Dialups are, by nature, more safe than constant
connections.  However, that doesn't mean you should ignore
the issue entirely: see /Security/
for starts.



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