todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (09/24/88)
> Does anyone's version of Netware-TCP/IP-Bridging interconnect > the Novell mail system with a SMTP-based mailer over TCP/IP? The bad news is NetWare's provided mail system is the 2nd worst PC mail system in my life (The worst is the new one they recommend, "The Uncoorinator", based on Novell's MHS (which has nothing to do with the X.400 MHS). The good news is NetWare supports DOS applications, including EMail systems. At Proteon, they've deloped a mail gateway between the PC Mail system "cc: mail" and SMTP-based mailers over TCP/IP. Then the NSF took over the code and made significant changes to increase its usefulness and provide a good user interface. ********* THE GATEWAY IS FREE!!! ******** Call Flip Whalen at 415 321-0430 (PCC/Systems), for more information. Note you'll need to buy cc:Mail for your LAN, which is an excellent product. There are products (Wollongong, FTP Software) to allow you to use your Ethernet adapter for both TCP/IP and Novell. I'm beta testing Wollongong's new TCP/IP GW that works with Novell or IBM NetBios network stations. This operates off a dedicated workstation and supports SMTP with a simple user interface. > I really don't want there to be another isolated E-mail system springing up in the corners here... You no longer have to. --todd booth / ucla data communications ArpaNet todd@seas.ucla.EDU / BitNet csdctgb@uclamvs.bitnet UUCP {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!todd / 213 825-1933 --todd
ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan) (09/26/88)
In article <16157@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth) writes: > >There are products (Wollongong, FTP Software) to allow you to use your >Ethernet adapter for both TCP/IP and Novell. > >I'm beta testing Wollongong's new TCP/IP GW that works with Novell or >IBM NetBios network stations. This operates off a dedicated workstation >and supports SMTP with a simple user interface. > But doesn't Wollongong's product require EACH PC on the net tbe running their WIN/TCP for DOS? And at $395 a pop (as opposed to "POP" - little mail humor there), can't that get pretty steep? (We've got about 5,000 micros here that want connectivity to other systems and PC-based (i.e. transparent) mail system that doesn't isolate them from the rest of the world.) Let's see, 5,000 times $395 (figure, maybe, a 20% educational discount) .... yipes!!! -- Jim Gogan / Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill -- Jim Gogan mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET) Microcomputing Support Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599