Hi, Basically what you need is linux on a machien with sendmail and fetchmail and pine. You will also need a domain. Next get your ISP or someone who has full internet connectivity to set up a mailbox such that all mail to your domain goes to that one mailbox. then on your linux box you can dial say once a day and fetch all the pending messages and also to send all the queued messages. all you would need is a .fetchmailrc configured appropriately. If you like the idea write and I will explain in detail how it can be done. On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Alvin Starr wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:43:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alvin Starr <alvin@iplink.net> > To: "[iso-8859-1] Francine MUSWELE LAKOH" <frmuswele@yahoo.fr> > Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: Help on creating a email server > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] 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. > > > > 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 > > 2. We have in my country, Democratic Republic of > > Congo, a very low telephone network > > 3. I want to work mostly with TCP/IP > > 4. I want to create by myself the reader of messages > > 5. I want to get more informations on features made, > > which will not requires a lot of money. > > > > Thanks a lot for all information and try to excuse > > mistakes (my english is very poor). > > using Linux on a 486 you can build quite an accptable mail server for not > a lot of $$$. > > If you have low quality phone lines it may be worth looking at using UUCP > as the transfer mechanisem. It works quite well in an environment where > full time connectivity is not generaly available. > > For mail reading you sould be able to find a number of older email readers > that will work on smaller systems. Take a look at Pine. > > Alvin Starr || voice: (416)585-9971 > Interlink Connectivity || fax: (416)585-9974 > alvin@iplink.net || > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Noah ksemat@eahd.or.ug - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
