Re: [cobalt-users] using my Raq4r server as SMTP mail server

[Andy Davidson <andy.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, HAVE1.COM (Gabe Nowak) wrote:

> I would like to know how it is possible to use my Raq4r server to send email
> using Outlook and the server as our SMTP server for all of our mail and a
> some of our clients as well.

Bad, bad, bad.

Some people will recommend POP before SMTP, but it's very kludgy, and
nasty.  What's bad about using your dial-up ISP's smtp relay ?

Here's an idea, which is never really discussed.  A 486 will be ample spec
to be a linux box in the corner of the office doing mail relay for you.

These machines can be run headless, so are very cheap.  Linux is free, and
most distributions will configure a mail server to be run out of the box.

You could even flog these to your customers. :-)


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