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- From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: POP3 client wanted
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:12:32 GMT
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <Gary.Woodman.935.727593152@anu.edu.au>
- References: <aml4.22.727500471@po.cwru.edu>
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- Keywords: POP3 TCPIP
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- In article <aml4.22.727500471@po.cwru.edu> aml4@po.cwru.edu (Adam M. Lambert) writes:
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- >Howdy - I am running OS/2 2.0 GA+SP, and IBM TCP/IP.... We use a POP3 server
- >to handle email around here, and right now the only option I seem to have is
- >to Boot-manager DOS to run Popmail/PC (A dos PC/TCP packet driver app)...
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- You could do like I do, and run POPmail in a DOS box, with a DOS packet
- driver... works really well.
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- >I would really like to be able to accomplish this with OS/2, but since
- >loading the NDIS stack w/ IBM's TCPIP package (for obvious reasons) I can't
- >run it from a DOS box...
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- Apparently an IBM product called NTS/2 provides a virtual Token-Ring
- interface to DOS boxes, you can load the IBMTOKEN packet driver and run
- multiple OS/2 and DOS TCP/IP apps...
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- Haven't tried it myself, followups to comp.os.os2.networking.
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