On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Michael Doerner wrote:
[...snipped a lot I don't know much about...]
> - Email server:
>
> As far as I understand, Sendmail is the typical MTA in the UNIX/Linux world
> for this (and there also seem to be other products available as I have read
> here).
> Would Sendmail as an MTA be able to give all LAN clients (Outlook, Netscape,
> etc.) email access for internal & external emailing - still over the above
> mentioned dialup connection?
Sendmail is able to do this, but remember that you also need
a POP or IMAP daemon on the server, so the users can collect
their mail. Sendmail only delivers the mail to the account for
them.
> If yes, will we have to do this by starting with our own domain name or
> could we start by collecting the mails from various POP3 accounts and
> distributing these mails to the internal LAN clients? Of course an own
> domain would be preferred and wants to be used in the longer view.
You can use either method. Use fetchmail to collect mail from POP3
accounts wherever they are... I do this...
My brother has 2 different POP3 accounts with different providers.
I use fetchmail here to collect from both accounts, and while
he was abroad the last few weeks, he simply used POP3 to collect
his mail from my Linux-box. Worked just fine.
If you get your own domain, you will need to set up the server
as the mail transfer server for your domain. Then Sendmail will
receive all mail and the users can collect it with POP or IMAP.
As long as the mail server remains the same, the client machines
do not need to be changed, except for the e-mail address itself,
the server name and account information on the client machines
can be left unchanged.
Hope you could use this information...
Regards
Ole
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