Fw: [UFO Chicago] e-mail help update 2

[Thomas]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas" <thomas@chicagomac.com>
To: "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] e-mail help update 2


>
> > Quoting Peter:
>
> > Why don't you figure out what machine you want to put it on, get the ram
> > situation worked out, and sometime during the week of the 9th we could
> > do the install. We could either report on it at the meeting, or for that
> > matter, we could make the meeting out of the installation. It doesn't
> > matter to me. You do have a DSL at dreamcolor, and that's what the
> > current server is on, right? What is the current server running? Do you
> > want to move web and email to the same box? Is that box also doing
> > ipmasquerading (NAT), or do you have multiple IP addresses?
>
> To start with, it will be on the P1.  I won't know if we get to keep the
> Alpha for a few weeks.  Currently the server is on a Mac... breeze to set
up
> and maintain, but it does choke from time to time (which is why I want to
> move it something else).  Our main "work" server is a Unix (DGUX flavor)
> box, but that isn't going to be touched.  We have DSL, and don't use NAT.
I
> would also like this box to do the Primary DNS.  For now I'll just have my
> ISP handle it.  Web isn't a big deal, we really don't have anything now
and
> I'm not going to worry about it, but ftp is a big issue with us and would
be
> tied on scale of importance with e-mail.  In fact if we do get to keep the
> Alpha I'll probably make it ftp and leave mail on the P1 (I'd rather wait
> for mail than files).
>
>
> > And, if your company wouldn't spring for the support contract from
> > e-smith, I would *DEFINITELY* recommend that you go with a standard
> > Debian stable install -- that's going to be relatively uniform across
> > all debian stable machines. This means that the problems you might
> > encounter are probably already documented and solved. I'm sure that
> > e-smith's installed base is significantly smaller compared to that of
> > Debian potato.
>
> Makes sense.  I do have an eval CD coming that I would still like to look
> at, and if it sounds at all interesting to you (or anyone in the group)
> you're more than welcome to take a look.
>
> Again, thanks for all the help and suggestions
>
> Tom
>