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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 18:58:27 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        100075.1013@CompuServe.COM
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org (freeq)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199605220158.SAA01614@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 May 1996 22:20:13 EDT." <199605210220.WAA02698@jbrann.dialup.access.net> 

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> 
> We want to set up a UNIX machine, which will link to the Internet via a leased
> line. This will become our internet mail/web server. All our users will connect
> to the UNIX machine to do their internet mail/ftp jobs. They use PC's which is
> linked via an Ethernet network to the UNIX machine. I have FreeBSD in mind,
> because of the cost :-)
> 
> We also want to create Web pages (i.e. a web-server) on this UNIX machine. 
> 
> Now for the questions. Is there a mail package available with FreeBSD? What
> software does the PC's need to connect? (We're looking at installing Win4WG
> and/or Win95) Is there web server software available for FreeBSD? Will this type
> of setup work?

1)  The built-in mail system should work fine.  I would guess that you would 
want to use Eudora as a mail client on your Windows machines, so you will want 
to hunt down the pop3 daemon (which should be available in the ports 
collection).  Otherwise you should be set for mail.

2)  For a web (http) server, look into Apache.  High performance, easy to 
configure, and free :-)  That is also available in the ports collection.

Hope this helps.  Feel free to send any questions to questions@freebsd.org.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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