Hi,
Basically what you need is linux on a machien with sendmail and fetchmail
and pine.
You will also need a domain. Next get your ISP or someone who has full
internet connectivity to set up a mailbox such that all mail to your
domain goes to that one mailbox. then on your linux box you can dial say
once a day and fetch all the pending messages and also to send all the
queued messages. all you would need is a .fetchmailrc configured
appropriately. If you like the idea write and I will explain in detail how
it can be done.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Alvin Starr wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:43:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alvin Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[iso-8859-1] Francine MUSWELE LAKOH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help on creating a email server
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Francine MUSWELE LAKOH wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm a newcomer in Linux world and till today I've
> > mostly worked as a user of Microsoft Products.
> >
> > My aim is to create a email server according to the
> > following requierements:
> >
> > 1. Usage of computers which have a 486 Processor for
> > most users
> > 2. We have in my country, Democratic Republic of
> > Congo, a very low telephone network
> > 3. I want to work mostly with TCP/IP
> > 4. I want to create by myself the reader of messages
> > 5. I want to get more informations on features made,
> > which will not requires a lot of money.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for all information and try to excuse
> > mistakes (my english is very poor).
>
> using Linux on a 486 you can build quite an accptable mail server for not
> a lot of $$$.
>
> If you have low quality phone lines it may be worth looking at using UUCP
> as the transfer mechanisem. It works quite well in an environment where
> full time connectivity is not generaly available.
>
> For mail reading you sould be able to find a number of older email readers
> that will work on smaller systems. Take a look at Pine.
>
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