You're welcome to see the setup..Indiaworld guys are not too forthcoming
on trade secret details/..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Achal Prabhakar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 26 December 1998 17:51
> To: Girish Panjwani; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] Write up of the Linux story in Eicher
>
> 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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