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Newbie: basic "economy" network configuration question; internal email servers

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Newbie: basic "economy" network configuration question; internal email servers picard 11-16-2004
Posted by picard on November 16, 2004, 7:04 am
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I am trying to understand basic "limited budget" networking concepts.
Any help is appreciated.

Assume you have a small office network with an inexpensive VPN capable
router such as the NETGEAR FVS318.

This router connects to the cable from your ISP and will look after
the internal network of the small office of only a few computers.
Assume that you have not paid the money for a domain controller and a
wins server.

Now what about adding an email server to the network?

This server needs to be set up to handle both external and internal
email.

What would be the minimum configuration needed to get the email server
look after external email yet keep internal email protected?

thanks!!


Posted by Not-My-Real-Name on November 16, 2004, 12:40 pm
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You could probably run an Email server for a small (say <50 users), with a
low end Pentium workstation.
The problem is disk space for all your users attachments.
The other challenge is integrating this on your Firewall and with your ISPs
network (some block outbound SMTP).
Don't forget Antivirus on each PC and the mail server.

Here's a FREE low end Windows Email package.
http://www.pmail.com/

It's been around for 14 years or more.

There's plenty of others Linux ones as well, others can chime in on those.




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