jsa00564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (01/18/90)
Hello everyone out there in net.land! I have a question, and really don't know who would be the best person to ask.. Believe me, I've already tried the obvious ones.. The configuration: A PC LAN with 80ish nodes running Netware/286. A VAX 8530 (VMS 5.1) is connected via ethernet to the LAN, using Interconnection's TES (Terminal Emulation Services, PC users can become VAX terms. over the net). All users uses VMSmail for email. The question: I would like to install an MHS compatible mail system on the PC's preferably DaVinci eMail. Reason? PC users only see their email now when the log into the VAX, and depending on the user, that could be several days, or even weeks... An email system on the LAN would provide instant mail notification, etc. So, I need a mail gateway to get VMSmail packets to MHS on the Novell LAN. This way PC users and VAX (terminal-only) users can mail each other, hopefully transparently. I have talked to Joiner & Assoc., who can do it for >$30,000. CC:Mail has their own gateway for cc:mail, and another to MHS, so it will supposedly work the way I want for ~$5000. However, I'd like to find a way that is both inexpensive (ie <$10,000), and one that maintains some kind of standard on both ends.. But cheap would be good enough...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Autor | "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out" j-autor@uiuc.edu | of my hat!" At the University of Illinois | "Again?" | "Nuthin up my sleeve [riiiippppp]! Also affiliated with: | Presto!" Valmont Electric, Danville, IL | [ROAR!] | "No doubt about it, I gotta get me a Opionions expressed are mine! | new hat..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------