Here is a link to the GroupWise 6 documentation that goes over the SMTP dial up.
You may need to work with your ISP to get the mailboxes setup right (they won't help you ont he GroupWise side though). It may be a problem since many ISP's don't offer relay servers anymore, but you may get lucky.
When you get your cable link, be aware that if you choose to then host your own mail server, there is a DNS Black List that will black list you just because you have a cable broadband connection. They consider cable and DSL to be home connections and should not be hosting any mail servers what so ever. I don't know any ISP that uses that list though.
Remember, NW6SB changes a lot of rules over the previous versions. before you were stuck with one server, no matter what. Now with the new license model you can have as many servers as you choose, you just will not be able to upgrade user licenses beyond 25 users. Once that happens you will need to purchase the full version of each of the products.
A license gotcha; when a user logs in and takes a license, they do not release it for 90 days. SO if you have 20 users that work 2 shifts, 10 users each shift, you will need 20 licenses for each user. You used to be able to get away with just a 10 users license since only 10 users at a time will be logged in, but thats not possible anymore with the new license model. SOme people hate it, but most love it. This is because you only get user licenses for NDS, not the server. So a 20 user licnese is good for every netWare 6 server you have in your tree.
A note to remember, the faxware software is not what you may expect. It is a sepparate client to use the fax server, it is not intergrated into GroupWise as most people expect. You need to purchase additional software to do this. McAfee is just a demo, you will not get any grant number to get updates unless you buy the full product.
If your users do not like the GroupWise interface, you are not limited to just the GroupWise client. You can use Outlook or any POP and LDAP client to access mail. You loose only some functionality with Outlook, and you can only do mail with the POP and LDAP features. If you use POP besure it is on a separate server if you plan to host your own mail server once you go cable. If you run both SMTP and POP on the same server, the mail nazis will black list you, even if your SMTP server doesn't relay mail.
If you use the proxy cache feature, be sure to create three rules to block spammers from using it as a relay. You need only three proxy rules; one to allow mail in from your domain to your internal mail server, one to allow mail to go out from your mail server from your domain, and a third to block everything else. Do this even if you do not host your own mail server. Also remmeber, what you have there is the full BorderManager 3.6 (may be 3.7 now) Enterprise Edition with firewall, vpn, proxy and some other kewl features, not just the proxy cache feature like before.
You also have the full ZENWorks 3.2 product, not a demo. So you can do network policies, application managment, workstation managment, remote control and imaging.
If you want to use all the features offered in NWSB6, be sure to pack your server with ram, and place the BorderManager software on it's own server so it can be a proper firewall for your network once you go cable (cable nodes are common targets for EXE babys aka wana-be hackers).
Also remember you have a full version of Netware 6, so you get iFolder, WebAccess, iPrint and all the other kick butt web features NW 6 brings to the plate. Brent Schmidt CNE, Network +
Senior Network Engineer
provogeek@hotmail.com
East Bay, California; USA
