Welcome input for mail client mail server internal network..

Hello!

OS: 4.10
Courier: (from ports) 0.45.4

I need to back up before asking the question.

Objective: We have about 20 in house PC users and 9 on the road salesreps.
Some have external company email addresses. We use VPN to enable the
salesreps and certain employees to connect remotely.

Most are using a MS version and will likely continue. I have introduced
linux flavours gradually so there is some mix. I would like any user sitting
at any machine (linux flavour or MS) to be able to access an internal email
account. (Salereps when they connect via VPN would also be able to access
it).

On the client side I am thinking a web based client is the best way to go.
Their internal username would be attached to our internal domain name e.g.
saturn.local (if needed ?) and everybody would be able to correspond with
each other. The problem with this is those internally who have external
email addresses have to open two interfaces to see mail. Ideally their
existing email clients (Outlook and Outlook Express) could be configured to
access their internal accounts as well.

[Would also be helpful if one could send a message to another from the
command line on an AIX machine (4.3.2) - I am thinking of a batch job that
runs and notifies certain people about things]

On the server side a mail server that could handle a web based client
interface at the least and Outlook or Outlook Express (or other clients e.g.
linux ones) at the most.



Where I am:
I am overwhelmed when I go to the FreeBSD ports page as to what I need.

Clients:
I like the look of SquirrelMail but a little unclear if it needs to be
installed on the client or will reside on the FreeBSD machine?

Welcome input.


Server:
I have been trying for a week now to get courier to work. Reason I chose
Courier is that I think (correct me if wrong) that I can use Outlook/Outlook
Express to access it. Everything starts up fine (except a courierfilter.pid
permission denied). I have apachessl installed and can acces the config
files using webadmin. I have connected using telnet to the relevant ports
and get good information back. However when I try to access my account on
the FreeBSD machine from Outlook I can't get past the password prompt box.

(userdb -show shows peterb and looking at the file I have systempw set up).

Looking at the courier mail lists there is very little about Outlook
problems and if you do mention them you are shot down for using it! Ha! Ha!

My Outlook settings are
email address: peterb (tried peterb.DeleteThis@saturn.local as courier settings have
this as local domain)
mail server: POP3
incoming mail: FreeBSD1 (name of mail server hosting machine)
outgoing mail: FreeBSD1
(no SSL connections are checked in the Advanced Tab)
Account name: peterb (account on the FreeBSD machine)
password: (account password on the FreeBSD machine)

I also see Qmail FreeBSD Toaster recommended.

Welcome input.

Many thanks,
Peter Brown

In article , Peter Brown wrote:
>
> On the client side I am thinking a web based client is the best way to go.
> Their internal username would be attached to our internal domain name e.g.
> saturn.local (if needed ?) and everybody would be able to correspond with
> each other. The problem with this is those internally who have external
> email addresses have to open two interfaces to see mail. Ideally their
> existing email clients (Outlook and Outlook Express) could be configured to
> access their internal accounts as well.
>
>
What is the use of Outlook with web-based email?