I would be getting a static line soon...I need to get myself prepare for the web and mail server..

What would be the preparation I need to make? I've set up my own internal mail before..using sendmail..but I believe it's not very secure because i've done little configuration to it!

so..looking at something more striaghtforward..any suggestions

you see...I need to set up an Local Mail and then a mail
for my company where we would be doing the hosting..this would need to allow the sales person do be able to check their mail from our mail server even from oversea..so I name this External Mail

I wanted to do something like this...Use a mail server, do set up for both the Local and External Mail ...issit possible??so..for those possible carrying a laptop, they would point to the external IP address...and for those using a desktop within the office, would use a local IP address...

but which mail server can serve this purpose? urgently need help..thanks!

or maybe can anyone direct me to a website which teach me about such stuffs including on DNS?

http://www.trilug.org/~jonc/mailserver/PartII.html

this will help you setting up your mail server and to make it accessible localy and externaly as you say.

you can access it externaly by setting a pop/imap server that will require the users to have a mail program like evolution or outlook or by using a web access and the most simple choice (I think) is to use squirrelmail (you can select the package when you install redhat)

so the best solution will be to install both so that the users will choose what they need and will be able to acces their mail from a public computer with the web acces

I'll be glad to help you since I've just been through that and everything is working very well

have fun =)

thank you so much!! I'll go read it up...thanks!