ht@ashtate.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) (06/07/87)
In net.sources I have posted a UnixMail to Telemail interface. It is a fairly simple interface and operates as follows: 1. It logs in for each "subscribed" user on the user's Telemail account and reads his mail (if any). The read mail is forwarded to him on the local UNIX system and the return path reflects "telemail!USERNAME". 2. It scans the UUCP queue for outgoing messages for a system named "telemail" and transfers those to a telemail spool directory. It then logs in for that user (if subscribed) to his Telemail account and mails the outgoing message to the intended user under Telemail. No user agent is provided and as such the user cannot send special classes of mail (such as registered, return receipt, ...), however non-passworded registered messages *are* accepted from Telemail and passed on to the user as regular mail. There is a number of planned improvements to this program, however, there is no time. Look at the TODO list for starters. Also this only runs on 4.2 BSD and 4.3 BSD systems even though it would not be very hard to convert it to other systems. I started some such work, but did not finish it again due to not enough time. As it is, it is a hack thrown together and patched as needed to do the job. I would appreciate new versions of it if someone improves it in any way and especially if any of the TODO items are done. --Haral Tsitsivas ...!seismo!scgvaxd!ashtate!haral