[wplug] Mail

[Sal Mangiapane]

Hi Duncan,

I would be glad to contribute.  I think that I understand a little about the 'life of an email' and would have some input there.
I've also reviewed the rfc documents about SMTP for some work I've done.

I always wanted to learn Sendmail (I even an O'Reilly book on the subject) but it is so complicated.  Every time I think about
delving into it I think some other product maybe qmail, or ??? would be a better solution.  I mean you do have to administer the
beast once you turn it on.  I haven't looked at any email servers, but I'm thinking about putting together a server for the internet
too.

Also, I don't know about any of the open source clients.  I still use M$ Outlook.  Another thing I think could be addressed is
converting an Outlook PST file.

Any suggestions of existing training material would be helpful.

This may fall into the wplug training material that was mentioned on the list earlier this year.


sal

>
> I have been intending to ask wpluggers about mail for some time and recently have noticed some threads.
>
> Would anybody amongst the knowledgable wpluggers have any interest in putting together a presentation about mail in all
> its aspects?
>
> I think that an introduction that provides information about the concepts concerning mail would be useful, perhaps
> starting with a walkthrough of the life of an email: initiator's keyboard to recipient's screen with mention of what
> software can/should be used at each point and how to go about setting it up.
>
> I am thinking about from the administrator's perspective - 'What should I do to setup mail for my company's employees? I
> want my users to be able to send and receive mail without using [ISP's] mail server. I want to be able to install
> antispam filters. I want to avoid gotchas like getting blacklisted because it's an open relay. What do I need to know
> about and what questions should I be asking?'
>
> There is probably a whole lot more that should be added to that list of the prospective mail administrator's 'I
> wants.....' but I'm not a mail admin (yet) so I'm not sure.
>
> Anyway, having inserted the idea (should I say plea?) for such a talk into your minds, I'll leave it to someone more
> knowledgable to come up with appropriate content ideas.
>
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