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

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

Yes I had also thought along those lines. When I started with all this the 
thought of adding 900 users to Linux was a daunting thought -I guess seniors 
only would be about 300 initially and the 150 on and off each year - and all I 
really new was adduser on the command line and manually editing the 
password file to remove them again. You tend to get into a mindset after a 
while. Also we would have to add a mail client to all our machines (we 
deliberatley did not install OE or netscape Mail), and I am still a novice when 
it comes to managing Sendmail. Wheras webmail will run with the existing 
browsers.

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