Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 17.33, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> So far, I'm liking Keith's idea the best. I just don't know if it can be
> done...or how.
>
> Outlook, as well as Evolution, when given more than one email account,
> allows the user to pick which account to check or which account to send
> on. It also has a default to always send on XXX account unless otherwise
> stated.
>
> Keep in mind the following...
>
> 1. Other users are Win2k
> 2. ISP doesn't handle email. The webhosting service does. ISP is just
> ISP (dsl account).
> 3. I don't want to bog my system down with a bunch of outside email
> (using internal server to access external mail).
>
> With that said...if I can just setup a server for inter-office mail,
> what program should I use? I assumed that there was a program that acted
> as an email server and I would assign IP adddresses of the clients and
> give corresponding names, e.g. 192.168.5.2 = bob. Then setup an account
> on Outlook that points to the server via IP 192.168.2.20.
>
> I'm I making this too easy? Seems like a really simple program. I
> remember back in the Windows for Workgroup days we had an email server
> that did just what I mentioned. I guess life's getting too complicated
> now, huh?

Another, possibly simpler, solution for inter-office communication is to set 
up some sort of messaging server, such as jabber. That will also have the 
added benifit of being able to both have offline messages (an email 
replacement) and online chatting, which could be needed on occasion.

//Anders