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 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
