home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ee.und.ac.za!csir.co.za!nuustak!pauln
- From: Paul Nash <paul@tantrum.csir.co.za>
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Mail <-> SMTP for SCO
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:13:25 +0200
- Organization: Infotek, CSIR, South Africa
- Lines: 28
- Sender: pauln@nuustak.csir.co.za
- Message-ID: <pauln.725094428@nuustak>
- References: <1992Dec21.215656.21930@utoday.com>
- Reply-To: Paul Nash <paul@tantrum.csir.co.za>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nuustak.csir.co.za
- X-Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are purely personal
- X-Disclaimer: and in no way represent the official view of CSIR.
-
- Thus spake sean@ost40.utoday.com (Sean Fulton):
-
- > Anyone know where I can obtain source for an SMTP <-> Microsoft Mail
- > gateway to run on an SCO ODT 2.0 system??
-
- MS-Mail uses a proprietary encryption scheme, which makes it almost
- impossible to roll your own gateway. Microsoft will, however, _sell_
- you an SMTP gateway (that runs on a stand-alone PC) for plenty $$$
- (more than your original MS-Mail license). To be able to generate
- SMTP addresses in outgoing mail, they'll also _sell_ you an SMTP
- addressing module (one for each postoffice that you want to be able
- to send SMTP mail) for even more $$$ (more than the gateway cost).
-
- We have be lumbered with an MS-Mail system (20-odd postoffices) which
- we have been trying to make talk SMTP. The gateway itself is quite
- flakey, although we have managed now to get it to stay up for up to
- 24 hours at a stretch! To do this, we had to use two SMC ethernet
- adapters, and put the IP leg on its own ether segment, shared only
- with one Unix host which is the MX target for all the postoffices.
-
- If it's not too late, do yourself a favour and scrap MS-Mail. Change
- to Pegasus (free), which has a very nice gateway (Charon, also free)
- which will also handle LPR/LPD printer queue gateways between Novell
- and Unix. MS-Mail is a _serious_ dog, to be avoided at all costs.
- --
- Paul Nash (voice) +27-12-8413050
- Network Services, CSIR Infotek (fax) +27-12-8414109
- PO Box 395, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa (home) paul@frcs.alt.za
-