From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 18:56:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA25206 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25201 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA01614; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:58:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199605220158.SAA01614@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: 100075.1013@CompuServe.COM cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (freeq) Subject: Re: FreeBSD (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 May 1996 22:20:13 EDT." <199605210220.WAA02698@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 18:58:27 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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