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From: Dale@DataBee.com (Dale Edgar)
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Subject: Re: Free E-mail Server
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Hi Ian

On 9 Nov 2002 11:28:44 -0800, in comp.databases.oracle.server you
wrote:

>Users are registered at username@crampton-pym-lewis.co.uk, which is
>the forwarded to our isp freeserve so the address becomes
>username@c-p-l.fsnet.co.uk. Users cannot connent directly to this
>account without downloading other peoples e-mail. Unless E-mail
>filtering is installed. This is a lengthy process as when a new user
>arrives, I have to log on to all the User accounts and change the
>filtering list. A free e-mail server would be a simple answer so that
>I would only make one change, istead of potentially 20!!

So why forward all users to a single freeserve account? Why not
forward each account to separate POP accounts? If the ISP forwarding
the mail is incapable of offering this service there are plenty of
ISP's who will. It's a simple MX record change in your DNS setup. The
ISP doesn't even have to be in the UK since your POP client does not
care where it connects to. 

For example we are in the UK but have an account (DataBee.com) which
for about $10 US per month provides a fast web server on the US
backbone, multiple independent pop accounts and also the ability to
have anything addressed to an unknown user at the DataBee.com domain
end up in a single account. (This will be important as you want to be
able to funnel the mail addressed to people who have left your
organization into a single account).

I suggest re-visiting your problem and seeing if you can simplify it
at the source - the mail sifter idea will work - but it seems to me
you are introducing expensive and possibly unecessary complexity.

Regards
Dale
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