On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:06:17AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >What a @#$%^ service. I use my hammershome address for most of my stuff but >my daughter needs an email address, too. I suppose she'll need to use aol.
There are other e-mail alternatives to AOL (I can tell from your e-mail address you're either a goat-herder or a cartoonist -- Scott Adams). We set up our cable customer's e-mail to send/receive all their e-mail through one of our mail servers using uucp over tcp/ip either through their own registered domain names or through a subdomain of one of our domains. This is pretty easy to set up Linux/Unix systems. I know, you say uucp's an obsolete protocol, but it works very well, isn't blocked by any ISPs I've encountered (many responsible ISPs block outgoing port 25 to prevent spamming by their customers or their open mail relays), and doesn't even require a network connection, plain dialup is OK. We have been providing uucp e-mail connections to people in the Puget Sound area since 1984, and still have dialup customers who have not network connection at all. One of which, luckypet.com, has a co-located web site that sends orders to them by e-mail which come to our system, ours dials theirs using a normal character dialup (e.g. not PPP), sends the e-mails where they're processed by their SCO OpenServer system automatically. I have also been working with Caldera's Volution Messaging Server here. This makes it reasonably easy to set up e-mail only accounts which are accessible externally via POP/IMAP clients, and also has a webmail interface using horde/imp. The major problem with this now is that there are some modifications necessary to allow external POP/IMAP clients to relay mail through the server after reading mail. This can be done by adding whosond support to the cyrus-imap, and postfix servers. We haven't been pushing this type of service, largely because I've never been able to figure what it's worth for people to have reliable e-mail addresses that aren't tied into a specific ISP, are Linux Friendly, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen.'' -- Samuel Adams (American Patriot) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
