Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:

> 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.

Put an Adzapper on it - there are numerous ones available.

> 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.

OK - to allow multiple addresses {assuming you have only a dial up
account}, you'd need.

1) A registered domain.
2) A routable IP address
3) An MX record and exchanger.
4) The web server software, linked with sendmail.
5) Maybe somethnig else which I've overlooked.

It wouldn't be easy, and would maybe be beyond your budget - using squid
and an ad zapper would be a better idea.

DaZZa

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