Re: Acces denied

> My idea was to use the 2 hamsters in the follwing way:
> - the LAN e-Mail Hamster server deals with the internal mail; he is
> working the whole day.
> - the Hamster server on the internet PC handles (if switched on) the
> external mails and pass them through the LAN e-mail server for
> distribution to the internal users. This internet E-mail server is
> only working 10 minutes per day.
> Would that be possible technically?
Certainly technically possible - but I fail to see why you would want to
do it.
few isps offer inbound smtp delivery - a few dialups still do, but they
don't offer this service to dsl users (say) so odds are good you are
planning to get your inbound mail by pop3 pull. That being true, then
you will have to initiate any such pulls when you want them - when you
run the scripts (or whatever) the hamster server will push out any
pending mail and/or news, and pull in any waiting mail (and any new news
postings). So simply build scripts that do whatever it is you want doing
(pull mail might be less frequent than send mail; pull news may happen
at different times) and set them running. Allow traffic *from* hamster
to the internet only; don't permit inbound connections, as you have
absolutely no use for them and plenty of reasons to deny them.

>> Yes, there are risks connecting a computer to the Internet, but a
>> properly configured firewall will minimize those risks, even when
>> the computers are left running 24/7, like mine are.
How do you connect? if it is dialup, you can always make it
dial-on-demand with hangup on idle.



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