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Re: Linux - Novell + Pegasus +Mercury




> Well, our setup is the exact same thing here in Leyada. However, you
> don't even have to mess around with POP, depending on your setup. Mercury
> acts as an SMTP server and client, and communicates with Pegasus mail
> over Novell itself. Therefore, unless you insist that all mail be
> sent to a Unix system and be fetched by POP, you can have Mercury handle
> it and Pegasus mail will automatically get it (without even a need for
> POP passwords etc.). The POP server exists so that someone would be
> able to read the mail from outside the LAN. So, I recommend you just
> use Mercury and Pegasus. If you need any help, say so (although it's
> very simple).
> 
> Oh, and one more thing - this setup IS more secure than most Unix system
> where mail is concerned. I can always telnet manually to port 25 and
> talk SMTP, but in our setup port 25 is blocked (on router level) for
> all machines BUT the Novell server. And since Pegasus Mail gets the
> username directly from Novell, I haven't yet figured out a way to fake
> mail.
> 
I'll second that I've set up such things in the past and its real easy
and pretty secure.

dovie


> Shay
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> Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il                 Finger for PGP public key
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