External student email access

[Norphy]

Simple question really, if your students have school issued email addresses, do you allow them to access their school email from home, either by pop/imap or a web interface?

Cheers,

Norphy

[ChrisH]

Not that we have anything implemented but I would say some kind of webmail reverse proxied to you is one of the better solutions.

[Norphy]

I'm not asking how to do it, I've got that covered. I'm just asking if you do it

[webman]

Yes we do. It's a basic CentOS Linux server, interface currently provided by SquirrelMail. Quick, unlimited users (tied in with Windows domain), didn't cost us anything, and has a global address book The box also runs our website.

[mark]

We let students and staff access our reverse proxied squirel box from home, yes. I worry that we don't monitor what goes on, but this system [custom build slackware install with web-admin] was rolled out to the whole LEA, so we'll blame them if anything goes wrong, no doubt.

[GrumbleDook]

Oh yes ... our email is tied in with our VLE (FirstClass), and we allow access via the web front end as well as the FirstClass client.

[Sylv3r]

Yes students are able to access their school addresses from home.

[plexer]

All of our staff and students are given email addresses by the lea based on an rm easymail platform.

Ben

[NetworkGeezer]

Oh yes ... our email is tied in with our VLE (FirstClass), and we allow access via the web front end as well as the FirstClass client.

Is it all AD based or do users have to save their email password in the VLE?

[NetworkGeezer]

Yes we do. It's a basic CentOS Linux server, interface currently provided by SquirrelMail. Quick, unlimited users (tied in with Windows domain), didn't cost us anything, and has a global address book The box also runs our website.

Wow! I didn't know that RM did Linux too

[GrumbleDook]

Oh yes ... our email is tied in with our VLE (FirstClass), and we allow access via the web front end as well as the FirstClass client.

Is it all AD based or do users have to save their email password in the VLE?

We use a nifty tool (FCAD) to authenticate against the AD ... originally they were seperate and some still use a seperate password (we allow this option for a variety of reasons ... including getting users used to having to remember more than one password) but once they log in with their domain password that is it ... it is synched across.

[Dos_Box]

Outlook Web Access over SSL.

[webman]

Wow! I didn't know that RM did Linux too

They don't 8)

We have the best of both worlds - RM CC3 and Linux We let Linux do what it does best - routing, proxying, serving web pages and handling email.

[k-strider]

outlook web access as well.. over ssl

I'm supprised so few people seem to use exchange !!! or is it an un-representative sample??

[webman]

Exchange costs a lot of money and you have to pay extra for web access. Open-source and third-party commercial alternatives cost a lot less in comparison.