Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:14:03 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: Bruce Bauman <boot@mosquito.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Bauman <boot@itchy.mosquito.com> Subject: Re: mail question... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960215170729.5931B-100000@okjunc.junction.net> In-Reply-To: <199602152308.SAA01684@itchy.mosquito.com>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Bruce Bauman wrote: > We have a customer who has a Novell network, and their users want to receive > Internet mail from us. This customer won't have a static IP address. They just > want to dial in and fetch mail from us, similar to the way our normal dialup > customers do (e.g. using POP). > > The problem is, they want a single machine on their end to basically dial us > up and snarf the mail for all of their users, and feed back the outgoing > mail to us for eventual delivery on the Internet. We want a simple solution. Make a sendmail database that forwards mail for all of their users to one account. But warn them that they will need to sort the mail on their end and if it is done manually, then their employees email will not be confidential any more, just like a fax machine. Better if you find out what corporate email system they are using and talk to local VAR's about setting up some sort of gateway, maybe using UUCP. Or if they would put a FreeBSD box on their network (an old 386 perhaps) you could configure it to run a dialin script that makes a PPP connection and then runs POPMAIL for each usera nd deposits each user's email in a separate mailbox on the FreeBSD machine. Then they can just run Eudora or Pegasus on each desktop and the FreeBSD box will be acting as their mail server. Of course, this requires all machines to be running a TCP/IP stack. This is unlikely if they have Novell 3.x Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
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