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- From: news@pollux.lu.se (Owner of news files)
- Subject: Re: Novell to IP mail gateway
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.153056.9653@pollux.lu.se>
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- Organization: Lund University Computing Center
- References: <1993Jan20.153833.10985@das.harvard.edu> <1993Jan22.004315.26204@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:30:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.004315.26204@actrix.gen.nz> Quentin.Smart@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.153833.10985@das.harvard.edu> sasaki@netop3.harvard.edu (Marty Sasaki) writes:
- >>
- >> Currently getting email from the PCs to the university backbone involves
- >> going through three (or four, depends on how you count them) machines.
- >> ....
- >> What are the alternatives? Are there any free or inexpensive software
- >> packages?
- >
- >What mail package's are you using?
- >Some, most? of the comercial Mail packages have SMTP gateways that mean you
- >don't need the complication of a MHS hub, but then you will usly be running
- >their version of a HUB.
- >I guess the expensive options would be to use:
- >
- > MS-Mail (There has been talk about inadequacies of their SMTP gateway)
- >
- > CC: Mail (Lotus have a SMTP gateway of rthis but it's V.Expensive)
- >
- > WPOffice They currently don't produce a PC SMTP gateway but there are 3rd
- > party options available. (Email me for more info on this one)
- >
- >The PD or cheap option would be:
- > PMAIL which I think only needs a charon box.
- > or other options like POP etc..
- >
- >Hope this helps
- >smart@actrix.gen.nz
- >
-
- We use DaVinci eMAIL with MHS to SMTP Gateway (S-Bridge). I think it works
- very well here on our LANtastic network. A 286 acts as gateway with a single
- network card.
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