Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:45:36 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Desmond Coughlan <coughlandesmond@yahoo.fr> Cc: freebsd mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: calenders .. silly question ! Message-ID: <45199F80.70707@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060926180613.15547.qmail@web27211.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060926180613.15547.qmail@web27211.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Desmond Coughlan wrote: > The thread on calendars has got me thinking.... > > The 'non-profit' organisation I mentioned, is a school. > > Here in France (and no doubt in dozens of other countries), many universities have constructed 'virtual campuses'. By that, I mean that the student logs in, he has not only his grades, but his timetable (classes, seminars etc), and he can send and receive e-mail to and from his tutors. > > Can this be done under FreeBSD (that was the 'silly' part of the question) ? > > Any pointers to where I can start learning about that stuff? Setting up the MX is the most urgent, but afterwards, we can start to have fun with SQL, forums, campuses etc? Honestly, I think you will have a hard time getting any useful answers: Your question is vague and broad and posting under a completely different topic is not helping. Before asking the "how" question, you gotta understand the problem you want to solve - that is first, figure out what is the problem: - how many users? - how will you manage users? - who will manage users? - how will users access services? - from where will users access services? - routing? - firewall? - does the infrastructure exist to provide access to services? - network? wireless? dns? etc. - how often will users access services? - how much data will be handled by the servers? - what hardware is required to support the expected traffic? ... and on and on. Once you have a clear idea of that you can start asking more concrete questions: - which MTA? - how do I setup that MTA? - what MDA? can the MTA work as MDA? - how do I setup that MDA? etc. So, I recommend you rethink your problem and make it clear what you want to achieve in your next post - under a suitable subject... Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
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