On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:30:06PM +0200, Francine MUSWELE LAKOH wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm a newcomer in Linux world and till today I've
> mostly worked as a user of Microsoft Products.
Well, I try to give some answer usable in generic UNIX-like
environments, independent of what exact flavour the system is..
> My aim is to create a email server according to the
> following requierements:
>
> 1. Usage of computers which have a 486 Processor for
> most users
No problem, use whatever hardware you have available
which meets minimum facility requirements -- e.g. 486.
> 2. We have in my country, Democratic Republic of
> Congo, a very low telephone network
I take that to mean "a very bad telephone network" -- such
might cause problems at e.g. running TCP/IP connections
and thus harming interactive connectivity.
> 3. I want to work mostly with TCP/IP
Not necessarily the best choice in all cases.
For email transfer in between machines a dialup connection
running e.g. UUCP might make more sense.
How your local UUCP connected enclave routes email to and from
the large world is a long story in itself, but it need not
appear in that classical ( host.domain!user ) address format
at all outside -- nor even inside for machine to machine links.
> 4. I want to create by myself the reader of messages
The world is full of different mail-user-agents. Creating
your own is of course educational, but perhaps your time
would be better spent by e.g. creating your native language
support (several for Kongo, I seem to recall) for some
existing software, for example to mutt ( www.mutt.org )
> 5. I want to get more informations on features made,
> which will not requires a lot of money.
With lots of free software around, all you need is electricity
to run the computer, and time.
Look for http://freshmeat.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/
for various softwares/projects which have registered pointers
for themselves. You will find a dozen of things which are
almost what you want, but only if you tweak them a bit...
(As you can use Yahoo, I infer from that that you will be
able to surf the web also.)
> Thanks a lot for all information and try to excuse
> mistakes (my english is very poor).
> Bye.
/Matti Aarnio
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