NetWinder working - now what

[Paul Thompson]

Thanks for the info Ralph,
as usual lots of things to think about.
You mention changing the attachment size. Can you tell me how to do this.
May just go back to office server (it is nice and simple ) and up the
allowed attchment size to 9 Meg. Most of the files I send out are about this
size.

Many Thanks

Paul T

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Siemsen" <ralphs at netwinder.org>
To: "Paul Thompson" <paulfthompson at supanet.com>
Cc: <netwinder at netwinder.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: NetWinder working - now what


> 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
>