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Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites



Hi again,

> Eloy A. Paris said:
> > 
> > Each office will have its own LAN (Ethernet). I don't want the users at each
> > office to deal with PPP/dial-up connections. As a matter of fact, all
> > the users at these remote offices are users POP through a dial-up PPP
> > connection to send/receive e-mail but I want to change this, I want to
> > make this easier.
> 
> Will the machine that handles the dialup connection (gateway of sorts)
> be running Unix or Novell or some other OS?  Its beginning to sound as
> thought UUCP might be a working option.  Sendmail/Smail generally don't
> work well with intermitant connections (at least in my experience), and
> you're not interested in POP.  If the remote LANs are running Novell,
> it might be worth looking into M$ Exchange or whatever their current
> mail solution is.

Yup, the machine in the main office is a Debian box. The machines in the
remote offices will be Debian boxes too. I wouldn't use any other OS
that is not Linux (Debian); it has proven to be rock stable and when
talking about connectivity, imagination is the limit.

I am thinking about having the main server at the main office calling
the remote sites every one or two hours. When the connection is made,
e-mail and other files are going to be transferred.

I am also thinking this is a job for the old UUCP.

Regards,

E.-

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Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323


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