NetWinder working - now what

[Ralph Siemsen]

Paul Thompson wrote:

> All this work had been to get what I thought was a reasonable Mail 
> server running on the box
> http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/download-AXIGEN_for_RPM_based_distros__RedHat,_SUSE,_Mandrake__Mandriva__v_1_1_1-136.php
>  
>  it is free so seemed a good deal. However back at square one. When 
> installing prog reports 'package for i386 architecture only'.

Much software is for Intel x86 only :(

Does your ISP not offer you email services?  These days, running your 
own mailserver is a pain, with all of the anti-spam measures, blocking 
lists and so on.  If you can get someone else to do it for you its often 
much easier...

As for what to run on the NetWinder to handle mail...  I would suggest 
trying "old faithful" sendmail first.  You'll probably also want the 
imap package, so that you can use an email client of your choice to 
retrieve your mail from the server.

If you want a commercial one, Communigate Pro had ARM binaries available 
in the past (long before NW9 days), I do not know what their current 
status is, and I never actually used the product.

> Can anyone suggest a reasonable Mail and Web page to install on the box 
> ? As I am not really Linux orientated so a good Web based interface is a 
> must.

Webmin is the recommended choice for web-based administration.  If you 
are just looking for web-based email that's something different, there 
are hundreds of packages, I unfortunately haven't any idea which ones to 
recommend these days (I last looked at this 4 years ago...)

> If all else fails can go back to the original Office Server and 
> reinstall the package from the CD just need to work out how to configure 
> it to send attachments of greater than 3 Meg. This was the original 
> problem that made me go down the upgrade path to get a more suitable and 
> up to date mail server and Web server

Changing the attachment size is very easy.  The main reason for having a 
limit is to avoid running out of memory and disk space on your server. 
Even if you make the change on your server, you will still find many 
receivers unable to accept large attachments, and there is nothing you 
can do about that other than to tell them to change their mail servers.

In my opinion, sending large attachments through email is the wrong 
thing to do, instead, you should make the attachement available via http 
or ftp, and send only a URL in the email.  There are a lot of commercial 
services offering this (eg. http://www.sharefile.com/home/), or it can 
be setup quite easily on your own server.

-Ralph