I setup a school.. a private school. They use IMP/Horde for webmail. And the server they use to run the mail domain on is just a P2 266 they had laying around. System runs Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 And the whole thing runs like a dream. We have imap/pop services also on it. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Dorrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 7:08 Subject: [SLUG] Re: [lias] Webmail - advice sought >Hi Simon, > >Setting up your own email service is by far the best solution for >schools. I would also recommend blocking known web mail sites as there >is absolutely no way of knowing of controlling what is sent and received >via these sites and this has serious liability implications for schools >- more so high schools. > >If your server is visible on the internet (yours is as I recall) then >you can set it up as a domain email server. You need to register a >domain and install an MX record in DNS pointing to your (email) server. >If you are really interested in regulating access to email then you >might be advised to set up a separate server for email... an old 486 >will serve POP and IMAP clients just fine. If you want to run an >internal web mail system then you will want a pentium. > >If you have regular (POP of IMAP) mail clients installed on your student >computers then this is the best solution. If this is too much work or >your firewalls are difficult to deal with then setting up a web mail >server may be a reasonable solution. You can try IMP from >www.horde.org. This takes a bit of setting up but is quite nice to >use. The other option is to setup AUC. Both packages require that you >run and IMAP mail server somewhere on your network. > > >Simon Bryan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> This is the scenario: High School (in Oz) with 900 students, we did not want >> the overhead of maintaining email for students so at first banned it altogether >> then allowed seniors only to use webmail (enforced by SQUID >> authentication). Now I am regretting that decision, at least 25% of my daily >> downloads are from webmail sites (mainly hotmail) ie all the advertising and >> images etc. >> >> What I am asking is....is the following a sensible, or achievable idea? >> >> Set up a webmail server in the school that students can join and which is >> accessible from the internet.....then I should be able to control all the >> garbage that goes with it. If it does not have all the whistles and bells of >> some systems, so be it. We would justify it only on educational grounds >> anyway, anything more than that then they can do it at home. >> >> Any advice comments etc appreciated, especially if someone has set one up >> in a similar circumstance. >> >> We are behind a series of firewalls, running 24/7 but only on a 56k link. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Information Technology Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> OLMC Parramatta > >-- >Andrew Dorrell PhD. Research Engineer >Canon Information Systems Research Australia Phone: 61 2 9805 2224 >1 Thomas Holt Drive, North Ryde, NSW 2113. Fax: 61 2 9805 2929 >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe in the text > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
