With the recent publicity of Linux, I decided to have a look at two of the
recent distributions of Linux, SuSE 6.2 and RedHat 6. I wanted to see how
easy it would be to set-up, deploy and manage on our existing LAN. Hopefully
I would get to see benefits like reliability and license cost savings over
our existing NT Based POP3 server.Allowing me to spend more time drinking
coffee in the staff room.
That was the idea, and still is I guess. Spend this week developing, testing
and setting SuSE or RedHat up. If all goes well deploy it next week.
I have spent many hours trawlling through documentation, I looked on the web
and through 25 or so books in a large bookstore. All of it was based on a
domestic situation, single mail account. Or even worse has talked about the
whole issue in the contents, but then only spent 2 pages trying to cover
commercial solutions, without actually covering anything!!
Please can someonne point me in the right direction, and please, please
don't tell me to RTFM....I've tried!
I want to deploy a server to run alongside our existng file server
receive and send mail via our ISP. Mail then needs to be routed to the
correct mailbox to allow the employees to pick up their mail via POP3
connections from Outlook on their PC's.
Also, I need to provide some method of dial-in for remote access to mail, I
have read about IMAP and am very interested in this idea, but again I seem
to have only found basic information, or a description of what it does.
I understand that this message might annoy some people ( resulting in me
being told to "Read the FAQ's and HOWTO's etc.") To those I apologise in
advance please understand that I do support Linux, If I can get this to work
then I can deply it in a commercial environment. I just have a time pressure
* over my head.
I cannot replace clients Win9x stations with Linux. But, I would be more
than happy for it to be driving clients requests and tasks.
So I guess I have to ask the question, can anyone help me out?
Many thanks,
Chris Johnson