Dirk Kievith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My purpose is to set up a small *intranet*, with about 2-3 machines > to start with, to offer email and web-browsing facilities to > multiple users. Which means multiple email accounts etc. > > My main querry is how to go about it: > - which e-mail software,
You could use qmail, exim, sendmail or smail, or maybe another, not necessarily in that order. I use and like qmail, despite the author's attitude and the fact that there's no real Debian package. > - which web- and proxyserver to use Apache is the most widely used web server and probably a good choice. There's basically just one choice for web proxy: squid. Even a lot of ISPs use it. For caching, a bit more memory and plenty of disk space is recommended. You could also use IP masquerading to pass traffic through a dialup machine and make it look like it all came from one machine. > - Can one have a Linux server and W95 pc's as clients. No problem. I do this at work, including giving dial-up access. It's all just like you're an ISP. > - As such, is there a way that multiple users could *download* their > mail from the local Linux server into W95? Which mail package to > use for that? If you put a POP server on your Linux machine, it looks like an ISP. Qmail comes with one. Use Pegasus Mail or whatever on the Windows machine. > - Else should one leave Windoze for what it is and work only with > Linux packages. Which email-packages under Linux are most > user-friendly? I like Gnus under XEmacs, and it's not to bad once it's set up. VM and (X)Emacs might be easier to start with. I've heard good things about Mutt. > My immediate aim is to install that which will serve my purpose and > save as much precious time on un- and re-installing different > applications. This is not actually too bad under Debian. You can even get your old configuration back. -- Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(100007f, 100007f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .