Lan Based Peer to peer email system??

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Kanda' Jalen Eirsie

Greetings...

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of any kind of Lan based peer to peer email and
messaging system?

It would seem to me to be a perfect giveaway app in all those home lan kits...

You would be able to see what machines are up and running, send a message kind of like
IM I suppose, or actually write an email that would be delivered to them when they turned
on the machine...

I suppose it would be intelligent enough to distribute the mail to all other machines on
the network, so that even if you turned off your machine, the email could still be
delivered...

I don't know, I suppose that that's one of those (That makes too much sense) type of
ideas....

We have 4 machines in various buildings all within cat5 distance, - all networked
together. And this kind of system would be perfect!

ll
Kanda'

<>SPAM-KILLER<>- If you really want to contact me, then -
kandaje<at>bresnan<dot>net

You figure it out...
 
Greetings...

Use any freeware email server program and turn relay off.
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That's not peer to peer... The server always has to be running...


Assume 4 computers on a home lan: A B C D.

Machine A sends an 'Email' to C which is currently powered down.
The "peer-mail" system would see that C is down, and deliver the message to both B and D.
Later in the day - Machines A and B power down and Machine C powers up. Machine D sees
machine C and delivers the message.
Later, machine B powers up, sees machine C, attempts to deliver the message but is told
that the message was already delivered, so it just simply disposes of it. Same happens
when machine A powers up again.

In any case, machine C gets the delivery. Kind of like a distributed Pop3 system on the
home lan... You wouldn't use it to transfer files, you can do that with simple folder
sharing... Just small messages - like:

Hey! When you get home do your homework!

Sure, I can see that it's NOT efficient, but it is flexible! The messaging done on a
home lan isn't that heavy of a load and even inefficient as it is, it would be nearly
transparent. It probably wouldn't work very well with 10 or more machines, but then,
that's not really what I'd call a home lan... Simply filling up all 5 plugs on the switch
probably takes you out of the home lan category and into the home OFFICE category...
Where you probably should be running a dedicated server anyway...


ll
Kanda'

<>SPAM-KILLER<>- If you really want to contact me, then -
kandaje<at>bresnan<dot>net

You figure it out...
 
Greetings...

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of any kind of Lan based peer to peer email and
messaging system?

It would seem to me to be a perfect giveaway app in all those home lan kits...

You would be able to see what machines are up and running, send a message kind of like
IM I suppose, or actually write an email that would be delivered to them when they turned
on the machine...

I suppose it would be intelligent enough to distribute the mail to all other machines on
the network, so that even if you turned off your machine, the email could still be
delivered...

I don't know, I suppose that that's one of those (That makes too much sense) type of
ideas....

We have 4 machines in various buildings all within cat5 distance, - all networked
together. And this kind of system would be perfect!

ll
Kanda'

<>SPAM-KILLER<>- If you really want to contact me, then -
kandaje<at>bresnan<dot>net

You figure it out...
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possible answer could be this windows program

Office Mail 1.1j+
from Burrotech
http://www.burrotech.com/officemail.php

cant vouch for it because i'm not part of a lan and the
weird two part download put me off checking it out.

further info from website:
Office mail is an email server/gateway (POP and SMTP) which
serves 3 purposes:
1. It collects and delivers external mail using POP and SMTP
2. It serves a Local Area Network allowing unlimited users
access to internal and external mail.
2. It stops harmful email viruses and worms infecting any PC
on the local network.
Other features include:
- Intelligent routing allowing internal emails to be
delivered instantly.
- Use of aliases so that one POP collection can be
distributed to the appropriate user.
- Unlimited users - we don't believe in charging people on a
sliding per-user basis.
- Regular mail checking using a dial-up connection or a
permanent, broadband one. No more manual Send/Receiving.
- A tray icon to clearly show progress, errors and new mail.
- Will work on any PC without using valuable resources - you
do not need a dedicated machine.
- Anti-virus feature will stop worms and viruses in
attachments.

System requirements

Install PC: P266 with a connection to the Internet, 1 MB
Hard Disk space, Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP
Network: TCP/IP

hth
slippery
 
602 lan suite has a 5 user maximum for the freeware version... i use it and
it works great !!!

sorry I dont have the link for it right now..

hope this helps..

Al
 
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