[H-GEN] Proxy servers

[David Seikel]

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I have done what you want for a real estate agent, it's all possible.

 --- Conor Cunningham <cunningham at uq.net.au> wrote: 
> If I was to go with the Linux option I would like to be able to have
> a mail program of some description that can download up to 25 POP3 
> accounts from powerup and then, let the clients access the Linux box
> as the mail server.

Use fetchmail to grab your email.

> The reason behind this is that they suffer from a serious virus
> problem and no matter how many times I try to educate the users they 
> just continue with their old ways. 

The one I setup had half a dozen virus checkers checking the email
before letting the users anywhere near it, the company was paranoid
about viruses.

> I would also like to have a proxy server, most likely squid running 
> aswell. However, I do not want SQUID to cache certain pages, i.e
> their website which is all dynamic and needs to be a fresh copy of 
> the page everytime you hit it.

A dynamic webpage should be telling the proxy that it is dynamic using
the appropriate HTTP headers, Squid will then know what to do.  If your
web designers didn't do that, get yourself new web designers.


> Question 1. Is the above setup viable and reasonably easy for a
> moderate linux user to setup. (Reasonalbe understanding of routing, 
> SMTP, POP etc).

As I said above, it's viable, I've done it before.  Shouldn't be too
hard for a moderate user.
 
> Question 2. Is their a commercially available router which could do
> much the same for a moderate price? Anywhere from $500 -$1000.

Suse 8.0 Professional has all the stuff you need, including a few virus
checkers and excellent documentation, $155 from everythinglinux.com.au.
 Their installation process should setup most of it for you, just
leaving you to configure fetchmail and the virus checkers.  I recommend
using qmail instead of the sendmail that comes with Suse, cause it's
easier to setup, and very secure.


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