[K12OSN] Student email

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:55, David Trask wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
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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