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Date:      Sat, 1 May 1999 20:40:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        jbernt@bigfoot.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dorm Room Server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.990501203547.11042A-100000@dsinw.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801be9446$2da4f700$b08ad38c@gryphon.oit.edu>

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> In my school's dorm, I have a connection, and with that connection I have a
> specific IP. The ip gets resolved to a specific name, ie:
> reshall-138-yyy.oit.edu, IP 140.211.138.yyy

Room 138 eh? I was in 326 upstairs.... put our number in binary. :) 
Course... that was long enough ago that we ran network wire though the 
heater pipes and into the dorm computer lab. :) 

> I want to set up an email server (incoming and outgoing, pop and smtp)
> I would like to know the best way to do something like this. Please let me
> know if any of you have any ideas.

	FreeBSD would do it well. Put sendmail or procmail or whatever on 
there. :) People would only be able to connect to the IP number, unless 
they're letting you named machines, i.e. whatever.dorm.oit.edu


				Rick



---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more 
then a random accident."

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