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- From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: NeXTmail at home (was: Downloading mail by modem?)
- Keywords: NeTXmail
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.193720.153497@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:37:20 GMT
- Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
- Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
- Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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- > Since I don't have my NeXT connected to a network (mine is a solitary
- and
- > lonely machine) I have a dial-up internet accout. Is there any way to
- > download mail files and read them in 3.0's Mail.app? I've tried this
- with
- > pine and mm mailbox files, but I get a message that "this mailbox is of
- an
- > old type". I've wriiten a script that auotmates the download process,
- but
- > it's pretty useless if I can't read the files.
- >
-
- This reminds me of something that crossed my mind some time ago. As more
- and more people have computers at home and more and more have modems it
- would be nice to have a program that would call somebody and send them
- e-mail. As an address you would have a phone # as opposed to an internet
- address. The mailed would actomagically know to use the modem to send
- that person e-mail. It would keep trying until it got through. The one
- drawback that I see is how to get around the need for a dedicated line.
- Is it possible to determine if a cal is voice, modem. or fax before the
- off-hook signal is sent? If so then all the program would have to do is
- pick up the call if it was a computer, otherwise just let it ring through.
- Any thoughts on this?
-
-
- -Mont
-
- NeXTmail OK :-)
- President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group, SLO)
- mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
-