Simple internal email via Evolution

[Matt Johnson]

Hi all,

We've set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS across 64 workstations in a school via ltsp and have Evolution installed as it comes out of the box.

We want to begin a teaching unit with some junior children (aged 7 / 8) and use email between them internally. We do not need (or want) any 'real' external email in or out. Ideally, to keep this simple to setup, Johny needs to be able to email Jenny or any other user in his/her class just with 'jenny' as the address.

I would have thought that running on ltsp makes this even easier, as I would think we're probably talking about keeping all the mail on just the server - local mail?

I don't know where to start. I doubt I'll need postfix or exim or equivalent? Do users automatically get a mail box somewhere on the system for local mail or is there a nifty shell command I can use to set this up for all users? I don't know if this would be 'directory' or a 'spool' etc. Evolution offers these options in the wizard.

I'm pretty sure this can stay really simple. I guess we don't have to use Evolution but it looks exactly what the teachers want.

Any pointers gratefully received.

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Matt