Hi Girish!
Can you detail the UUCP + Sendmail setup, including if possible the
detials of things to be setup at the ISP end?
Thanks...
Achal
Girish Panjwani wrote:
>
> The linux journey in Eicher started about a year ago, we piloted out a
> solution based on the Slackware distribution of Linux (2.0.30) and
> Apache Web Server. Our setup was an NT based LAN with Win 95 as the
> client.So we provided "e-mail and internet browsing" on the desktop of
> the end user. For e-mail the sendmail daemon is used with the protocol
> being UUCP.
>
> E-mail are "parked" with a service provider who has a 7 x 24 presence on
> the Web.The reliability and stability of the Linux server has led to the
> spawning of this solution to the following locations within Eicher :
> 1) Corporate Office -New Delhi
> 2) Tractors Plant - Faridabad
> 3) Eicher International Office -New Delhi
> 4) Eicher Research & Dev Center- Ballabhgarh
> 5) Eicher Motors Regional Office -New Delhi
> 6) Eicher Motors Plant - Pithampur (MP )
> 7) Eicher Demm (Gears) - Parwanoo (HP)
> 8) Ramon and Demm -Thane (Bombay)
> 9) Royal Enfield Motors - Chennai
> 10)Span Eicher Designs - Chennai
> 11) Royal Enfield Motors-Jaipur
> 12) Eicher Tractors- Alwar
>
> In the above list at least 3 locations can be termed as really remote
> and yet the system works wonderfully well. The total no of users across
> Eicher Group is close to a 1000 mark. We have cut our recurring costs by
> 15 lakhs at a conservative estimate and the fixed cost of investing in
> something like Microsoft Exchange Server at all locations (Client
> licenses taken into account the fixed cost would be range of another 10
> lakhs) our users have trebled... mail traffic is increasing
> exponentially.. responsiveness of Eicher as an organisation has
> increased..we are now in the process of piloting with ISDN to increase
> our bandwidth on the same Linux Box.
> Also there is a Web based frontend for e-mail administration which makes
> life simpler. Another highlight is that when an end user get transferred
> from one location to another his e-mail address doesn't change.
>
> A Corporate success story all the way...
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Girish
> P.S. Sorry for the delay..I was stuck at Jaipur due to the weather..
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Achal Prabhakar
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