[K12OSN] Student email
"Terrell Prudé, Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Tue Dec 14 13:36:13 UTC 2004
Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:55, David Trask wrote:
>
>
>>I simply wnat them to have an intranet
>>communications tool that they can also use for backup.....any ideas? PS.
>>I'm a big fan of SME server...so if can be done with that I'd be very
>>happy.
>>
>>
>
>An SME server should work fine as a local mailbox. Just break it's
>connection to the outside via smtp. There are any number of ways
>to break things. If it isn't going to serve ftp/http to the outside
>just use a single NIC on the 'private' side of your network so inbound
>connections can't reach it and use the 'mail forwarder' configuration
>option to point outbound mail to a dummy address that will never work.
>That way there is little customization to track during upgrades and
>it is easy to make it public if your policy changes.
>
>---
> Les Mikesell
> les at futuresource.com
>
>
>
How about simply blocking SMTP to this box on your router or firewall?
Then you could have your students do like we did at the University of
Washington--ssh into the mail server and fire up
Evolution/Thunderbird/PINE/whatever mail client you want to give them.
This would restrict any email to that server, and only that server.
--TP
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