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"I want staff and pupils to be able to email each other,
whether they use Acorns, PCs, or Macs"
Many schools have mostly Acorns for pupil use, but a couple of
PCs or Macintoshes used for special purposes (in the school
office, perhaps, or the art department). To set up an Acorn-based
server to provide email access to any mix of these three types of
computer, you need the ANT Internet Server Suite. Here's why:
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Multi-platform standards |
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The ANT Internet Server Suite offers the industry-standard
mail protocols, IMAP and SMTP. You'll need to install ANT
Marcel® on your Acorns, and PC and Macintosh IMAP mail
programs on your PCs and Macintoshes. Once you've done that, you can
set them all up to use the same mail server -- the ANT
Internet Server Suite -- and then any user can access their
email, and send email, from any of the three sorts of
computer.
One IMAP mail program for PC and Macintosh that you might
consider is Outlook
Express from Microsoft, which is free to download. You
can find information about other programs which support IMAP
from www.imap.org.
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Log on anywhere |
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IMAP mail programs, such as ANT Marcel, store your email
folders on the server computer. This means that whichever
computer you log on from,
all your email and all your preference settings are
accessed from the server. This is vital for pupils in a
school situation -- where you could easily have 1,500 users
and perhaps only 30 computers -- but also means that
teachers and administrative staff can always check their own
email, wherever in the school they happen to be.
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Take full control |
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You probably don't want all your pupils to be able to email
anyone, anywhere in the world, so the ANT Internet Server
Suite comes with an easy-to-use user management
program.
Using this program, you can give groups of users, or
individual users, either no access to email at all,
read-only access (no sending), internal access
(able to send only to other users in the school) or full
external access (able to send to any email address in
the world).
For more details, see the section User
access.
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And it's not just email
Email is the multi-platform service which is most commonly
asked for. But the ANT Internet Server Suite also comes with
servers for the web, discussion groups (news), file transfer
(FTP), and remote logon (telnet) -- all of which are done by
means of industry-standard protocols, and all of which can
thus be used from PCs and Macintoshes running the right
software.
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