[SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

["Simon Bryan" <sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au>]

Hi,
This is the scenario: High School (in Oz) with 900 students, we did not want 
the overhead of maintaining email for students so at first banned it altogether 
then allowed seniors only to use webmail (enforced by SQUID 
authentication). Now I am regretting that decision, at least 25% of my daily 
downloads are from webmail sites (mainly hotmail) ie all the advertising and 
images etc.

What I am asking is....is the following a sensible, or achievable idea?

Set up a webmail server in the school that students can join and which is 
accessible from the internet.....then I should be able to control all the 
garbage that goes with it. If it does not have all the whistles and bells of 
some systems, so be it. We would justify it only on educational grounds 
anyway, anything more than that then they can do it at home.

Any advice comments etc appreciated, especially if someone has set one up 
in a similar circumstance.

We are behind a series of firewalls, running 24/7 but only on a 56k link.

Cheers,

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Simon Bryan                    sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au
Information Technology Manager sbryan@nospam.mpx.com.au
OLMC Parramatta
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