Many small businesses with fewer than two dozen PCs currently use a haphazard, ad hoc email system. Typically, one PC at a time accesses email by laboriously connecting to the Internet with a modem. In this scenario, you should find it easy to convince management to install a Solaris host to consolidate email functionality. Despite its flaws, email can boost productivity in most businesses. Management intuitively understands that email allows people to think things through instead of making rash statements during the course of a phone call.
Effective communications increases the bottom line of every business.
In this article, we'll show you how to connect a network of PCs to a Solaris host, which runs sendmail. We strive to obtain three goals in our email architecture. First, we want our mail server to work with a wide variety of PC software. Second, we want an easy installation. In our scenario, the company assigns one PC to each employee.