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

["Michael Fox" <michaelf@nospam.mafnet.com>]

I setup a school.. a private school. They use IMP/Horde for webmail. And the
server they use to run the mail domain on is just a P2 266 they had laying
around. System runs Debian/GNU Linux 2.1

And the whole thing runs like a dream. We have imap/pop services also on it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dorrell <dorrell@nospam.research.canon.com.au>
To: sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au <sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au>
Cc: slug@nospam.slug.org.au <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>; lias@nospam.lists.linux.org.au
<lias@nospam.lists.linux.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 7:08
Subject: [SLUG] Re: [lias] Webmail - advice sought


>Hi Simon,
>
>Setting up your own email service is by far the best solution for
>schools.  I would also recommend blocking known web mail sites as there
>is absolutely no way of knowing of controlling what is sent and received
>via these sites and this has serious liability implications for schools
>- more so high schools.
>
>If your server is visible on the internet (yours is as I recall) then
>you can set it up as a domain email server.  You need to register a
>domain and install an MX record in DNS pointing to your (email) server.
>If you are really interested in regulating access to email then you
>might be advised to set up a separate server for email... an old 486
>will serve POP and IMAP clients just fine.  If you want to run an
>internal web mail system then you will want a pentium.
>
>If you have regular (POP of IMAP) mail clients installed on your student
>computers then this is the best solution.  If this is too much work or
>your firewalls are difficult to deal with then setting up a web mail
>server may be a reasonable solution.  You can try IMP from
>www.horde.org.  This takes a bit of setting up but is quite nice to
>use.  The other option is to setup AUC.  Both packages require that you
>run and IMAP mail server somewhere on your network.
>
>
>Simon Bryan wrote:
>>
>> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Simon Bryan                    sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au
>> Information Technology Manager sbryan@nospam.mpx.com.au
>> OLMC Parramatta
>
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