I have a question about setting up a mailbox between the computer at our home and the office. After a bit of reading I discovered that I could set up a dial-up network and I worked out how to configure it. I got that working but I was wondering how you could send mail from one computer to another when you needed to. Both the computers are Pentium 90s, one with 16Mb RAM, the other with 8Mb.
- Vijay Santhanam
With Windows 95 Dial-up Networking you obtain a connection that is identical to that from a LAN connection. If you are dialling into a LAN you obtain full access to the LAN.
MS Exchange can be used to set up the mailbox. If you have a LAN in your office the mailbox itself can reside on any computer but it makes sense to place it on the computer used for dial-up. Exchange will allow you to work offline, so that you compose the e-mail first, then you dial up and the e-mail is sent. E-mail is also downloaded to the local computer so it can be read later.
If you don?t want to use Exchange you can set up the office computer as a POP3 mail server using one of the free packages that are out there on the Net (most have a limit of only a few users). For the client you can use any POP3 e-mail client.
- Roy Chambers
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Category: Win95, Networking
Issue: Feb 1997
Pages: 160
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Setting up a dial-up network