Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

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

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:

> Am already running Cameron Simpsons adzapper, which works well. But a 
> lot of the graphics etc are not adds as such. Maybe Cameron can add all the 
> hotmail junk to the zapper?

Hmmm, fair enuff. Yes, webmail is the worst way of doing email.

> > 1) A registered domain.
> olmc.nsw.edu.au

Good start.

> > 2) A routable IP address
> Yep

Better start

> > 3) An MX record and exchanger.
> I guess so, as we already receive mail, it is a permanent dial-up.

So why not just run a local mail server, and only give your seniors
accounts on it? Completely block web traffic from all except selected
machines {if required}, and just let sendmail spool to the local linux
box?

> > 4) The web server software, linked with sendmail.
> The tricky bit! :-)

I suspect this could be overkill - if they're using the webmail, then
obviously they have access to machines - it's not hard to give them shell
accounts on the Unix box - hell, even POP3 accounts - and let them just do
mail that way - it'd save you ever accessing the web sites again, you
could procmail them to restrict mail size to something reasonable,
stopping large file attachments.

That's what I'd do, anyway.

DaZZa

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