[ILUG] Mail server setup

[Dave Airlie]

A friend in a company didn't something with ESAT NET, he got a mail
server, static IP, ISDN line, set gets SMTP'ed the e-mail and internally
it is popped, the company also got 4-5 traveller a/c's from ESAT (pop all
over Europe eunet stuff), when someone is travelling they forward their
e-mail to the traveller a/c and they read it there and when they return
they remove the forward ..

Dave.

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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I'm looking for suggestions for a mail setup. I have a client in
> Dublin who currently use provider A for mail - their domain is hosted there
> with 10 mail accounts which they pop from and they are happy with the
> service. They're about to have a server co-located with provider B, because
> the response from provider A about providing this service just didn't give
> us a warm and fuzzy feeling, although they were only 2/3 of the price. So,
> they need to relocate their mail to the new provider as well. (I'm sure its
> technically possible to have the MX for their domain pointing to provider A
> and the A record pointing to provider B but I don't feel it's a good idea.)
> 
> Provider B doesn't want to provide any more than 5 POP accounts. Beyond
> that, they want you to have your own mail server and just periodically poll
> them for mail. Local users can then use whatever mail clients and whatever
> protocols they want against the local server. This is A Good Thing - the
> local mail server can fetch the mail several times a day, thus avoiding
> having users bringing the ISDN line up whenever they need to send an
> email. 
> 
> But (you were waiting for that, weren't you ?) this brings up a problem
> with travelling users. With the current scenario, they just connect to
> provider A's pop server from wherever they happen to be. In the new
> scenario, they won't be able to do that if the mail server runs on a box in
> the client's office as it doesn't have a permanent connection. The obvious
> solution that springs to mind is to have the co-located server run the mail
> server as well, but then what do the people who are not travelling do - pop
> or imap to the server, as they currently do, losing one of the advantages
> of running a server. It occurs to me that perhaps the thing to do is to run
> the server on the co-located box, and to use fetchmail from there to the
> office for the non-travelling users.
> 
> Anyway, I think you get the picture. Suggestions welcomed - pints for the
> winner when I come to Dublin in a couple of weeks to put this all together.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> P.S. Somebody mentioned a while ago on this list a nice set of instructions
> for setting up sendmail under RedHat which involved getting the 8.9.1
> RPMs. I'm sure I saved the information, but I don't know where :-( Who was
> that and where are the instructions ?
> 
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