[olug] mail services

[Rob Townley]

OpenSource Zimbra has av and antispam built-in.

On 3/20/07, Travis Owens <openbook1441 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> There are many ways this could be done and I will offer ideas/help if
> you want; however, I would offer a suggestion that might make this
> easier--if the "clients" are family/friends, then I don't think you
> would actually need a personal server for this (especially the costs
> associated with adequate bandwith to make it work and not be painful)
>
> I would suggest teaching them Yahoo! mail or Gmail.  Both have great
> interfaces and brilliant filtering solutions. They are well
> maintained, improving constantly. They're on blazing connections and
> are popular enough not to be blocked anywhere (i.e. spam filters, or
> network proxies--if one were to access it from a library or something)
>  This is just a suggestion, and I believe it would be much easier to
> teach them to use one of those services, rather than building your own
> custom mail server solution and then teaching them to use it. (client
> or webmail)
>
> Let me know if you're still needing help on the custom server.
>
> Travis
>
>
>
> On 3/20/07, Paul & Debbie Lewis <phldml3 at cox.net> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >     I've read the briefing off of the OLUG site about mail services, but I
> > need some more basic information.  What I'd like to do is build a "mail
> > server" that would pull e-mail from multiple service providers clear spam,
> > virus, and junk mail.  After that is completed, my clients could retrieve
> > their e-mail from my e-mail server rather then their ISP service.  Impetus
> > behind this is my parents have a dial up service back in Ohio (there getting
> > up in years and don't want to pay for high speed internet), but their ISP
> > has limited spam and AV protection.  I'm wondering if I could set up a
> > service here to fill in that need for them.  While I'm thinking of it can
> > you use a similar system to pull e-mails from say a Yahoo.com e-mail
> > service.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Travis Owens
>
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> actually stands for: Viruses, Intruders, Spy-ware, Trojans & Ad-ware
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