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From: todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Solution to NetWare <--> SMTP
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Date: 23 Sep 88 21:59:09 GMT
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Reply-To: todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth)
Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering &  Applied Science
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> Does anyone's version of Netware-TCP/IP-Bridging interconnect
> the Novell mail system with a SMTP-based mailer over TCP/IP?

The bad news is NetWare's provided mail system is the 2nd worst PC
mail system in my life (The worst is the new one they recommend,
"The Uncoorinator", based on Novell's MHS (which has nothing to do
with the X.400 MHS).

The good news is NetWare supports DOS applications, including EMail
systems.  At Proteon, they've deloped a mail gateway between the PC
Mail system "cc: mail" and SMTP-based mailers over TCP/IP.  Then the NSF
took over the code and made significant changes to increase its usefulness
and provide a good user interface.  

*********  THE GATEWAY IS FREE!!! ******** 

Call Flip Whalen at 415 321-0430 (PCC/Systems), for more information.
Note you'll need to buy cc:Mail for your LAN, which is an excellent
product.

There are products (Wollongong, FTP Software) to allow you to use your
Ethernet adapter for both TCP/IP and Novell.

I'm beta testing Wollongong's new TCP/IP GW that works with Novell or
IBM NetBios network stations.  This operates off a dedicated workstation
and supports SMTP with a simple user interface.

> I really don't want there to be another isolated E-mail system
springing up in the corners here...

You no longer have to.

--todd booth / ucla data communications
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--todd