-----Original Message----- From: Frank Shute [SMTP:shute@esperance.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:45 AM To: Schools List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Router IP addresses
I thought I'd mention that a static IP allows you to have any number of email addresses and you can then pick up your mail via SMTP from Demon and distribute it to your users via POP3 or IMAP. To my mind that's a big benefit of using Demon. The static IP also makes the possibility of remote admin via ssh a relatively easy proposition. [Simon Wood] The real advantage of a static IP is that you can run your own SMTP deamon (visible to the outside world) so that you don't have to rely on Demon to store and forward it to you. In this case people email you directly....
If you do have someone storing/forwarding email for you then you can generally pick it up from either SMTP or POP3. Using an application such as Fetchmail you can pick up emails from a 'unified' (multiple names in a single box) POP3 mail boxes and distribute them to their individual destinations. POP3 generally has the advantage that emails are only deleted once they have been successfully collected, a failure during SMTP collection could result in emails being lost. Simon W.