e-Schools' Network provides a number of cost effective SchoolMail Solutions. These are
tailored to suit the needs of schools. All of ESN's SchoolMail Solutions include antivirus
and anti-spam measures.
TaxisMail is a complete package offering a light weight-email solution for schools
which supports an unlimited number of email addresses. It includes an email client
called Pegasus Mail which integrates
seamlessly into the TaxisMail setup. TaxisMail and Pegasus Mail are freely available
and therefore suited to schools' budget both on software costs as well as hardware
requirements. Taxis is designed for either standalone operations (on a single machine),
or to provide email to users on a peer-to-peer network, or on a server-based network.
TaxisMail is a Windows application that runs on all the latest Windows platforms:
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0 (workstation or server)
Windows 2000 (server or professional)
Windows XP
Windows 2003 server
TaxisMail is compatible with all types of internet connectivity.
Mailing list
Join the
Taxis-users Mailing List for announcements and discussion about Taxis Mail.
SMTP ( simple mail transport protocol ) mail is delivered directly from the ESN
mail servers to the schools email server. This requires the schools' server to have
a fixed IP address. When a fixed IP address is not available dynamic DNS has been
used; however, we would recommend one of our alternate collection methods instead
(ODMR or MultiDrop). The advantage of SMTP mail is that there is less delay between
the sender sending the email and the school receiving it. However fixed IP addresses
are typically only available on more costly Internet connections.
Compatible email servers:
Exchange
Novell GroupWise
Other Standard SMTP servers
Compatible Internet Services:
Uncapped ADSL with static IP addresses
Diginet
ODMR/ATRN
About ODMR/ATRN
ODMR ( on demand mail relay ) is a relatively new system of delivering email to
clients with dynamic IP addresses. The school would need to have a email server
capable of receiving email via SMTP and a small program to connect from ESN servers
to the schools mail server. ESN currently has solutions on both the Windows and
FreeBSD/Linux platforms.
Compatible email servers:
Fetchmail or Xatrn with any Standard SMTP server.
MultiDrop
About MultiDrop
MultiDrop is a POP3 account in which ESN collects all the email for a whole school.
The schools mail server would then use a POP3 connector to collect the email and
distribute it amongst the local users.
Compatible email servers:
Exchange
Novell GroupWise using PFA
Fetchmail with any standard SMTP server.