Re: [Off Topic] Ideas on providing low cost email access to schools
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> The Linux machine will queue all the outgoing mail. This Linux machine
> will then dial another school or hub (via. PPP) during the off-peak
> hours and send out the emails from the queue.
> Questions
> ^^^^^^^^^
> 1. Has something like this been implemented elsewhere? It would be nice
> if I had more actual technical details on how this has been implemented.
Yes, you have just reinvented FIDONET. Do a web search on that and you'll
turn up some information. It reigned in the days of Bulletin Board Systems
(BBS's). During off-peak hours, the BBS's would call each other and
exchange data and email. Email (though slow by today's standards) was
possible from one end of the US to the other.
I don't know how much technical help this'd be, but it might at least be
a useful reference for the article you're writing. Take a look at
http://www.fidonet.org/
http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
> 3. Are there out of the box solutions available? Do any of the MTAs
> support this kind of stuff? I don't want to write custom scripts. I
> prefer a solution that needs minimal maintenance.
>
> 4. I want to stay with TCP/IP. uucp is not a solution for me.
Sorry, I don't know enough about this to help out. Perhaps you could ask
on the Linux-net mailing list (linux-net-request@vger.rutgers.edu &&
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu).
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"COBOL is here for the long run... [O]n the Starship Enterprise make
no mistake, the program that calculates their pay will be written
in COBOL..." - Jerome Jahnke
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