Use question

Our company is small and uses an outside firm for POP mail, however
sometimes delivery of internal mails is slow. So the thought is to put a
mail server on the inside of the firewall to capture e-mails outbound and
reroute them if they are internal. Can this be done with qmail?
Also, some of the users are mobile so settings on their PC's would have to
be transportable and transparent.

James wrote:

> Our company is small and uses an outside firm for POP mail, however
> sometimes delivery of internal mails is slow. So the thought is to put a
> mail server on the inside of the firewall to capture e-mails outbound and
> reroute them if they are internal. Can this be done with qmail?
> Also, some of the users are mobile so settings on their PC's would have to
> be transportable and transparent.
>
>

Yes, qmail can be configured to handle your domain and send everything
else out. You can not have an email address on the domain be deemed as
external. The domain is either local or not.

Since you are using an outside firm for email, there is no such thing as
internal email as all email gets sent out to the outside provider and
delievered accordingly.

However, by setting up an internal server, you would effectively
performing the work currently being done by your outside firm.
You should determine whether setting up your own server is what you are
looking to do.
There are many solutions available in use with qmail.
www.lifewithqmail.org, www.inter7.com, etc.

you should think ahead on how you will be managing/configuring/setting
up users if you do go with your own internal mail server setup.

AK