On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 18:42, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Everyone in my office runs Win2k except me, Suse 8.0. My firewall is a standalone box running RH 7.0.
My boss asked me if there was a way to run an internal email server so that we didn't have to go to the outside to send email to each other. I said, "Sure, boss! I'll get right back to you." Now what? He wants to be able to get inter-office email as well as external email.
The email we currently use is with our web-hosting service. What email program should I run and how do I set it up? For now I can set it up on my Suse system...unless it were to bog my system down too much.
This can be done, but it is not a simple problem. If you want to send e-mail internally without going outside your LAN to your current hosted mail server, then in addition to setting up a local mail server on your network, you will have to point all your mail clients on every machine on your network to use your local mail server and configure your local mail server to forward all non-local mail to your ISP. If anyone has any mail stored on your hosted mail server, you will need to transfer it either to their local machines or move it to your new local mail server. You have lots of decisions to make, which MTA (I prefer postfix), do you need POP and/or IMAP and/or webmail access? The next issue is how will you receive outside mail? Your current domain mail goes to your hosted mail server. If you have a full time Internet connection, you can get your ISP to point your MX record to your new internal mail server, or you have set up a program to pull your mail down from your ISP via cron and store it on your local server. Since your current hosted mail sits on the Internet, you can access it from home. Do you still need this if you move it internally? Lots to think about :) Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Sing blue silver Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net