aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) (09/12/89)
In article <2124@infmx.UUCP> I wrote: >A client is looking for an email package that will work for both >DOS-UNIX and DOS-DOS (e.g., thru something like PC-NFS). "Ideally, >a UNIX mail workalike", so they say. > >I'm sorry if this question is repeated dozens of times in the mail >newsgroups, but I haven't been following 'em. Please don't magnify >this by following up; please *email* me any such recommendations. >If this subject hasn't been beaten to death and there is interest, I >will post a summary. Thanks a bunch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 14:27:54 EDT From: uunet!East.Sun.COM!geoff (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) How about PC-NFS LifeLine Mail? Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 12:18:35 PDT From: uunet!vortex!lauren (Lauren Weinstein) Subject: DOS email, etc. To: infmx!aland Hi. Our UULINK product provides DOS PCs with comprehensive UUCP communications including file transfer, UUCP and domain mail, and lots more. It operates through modems or serial ports, so it could well be appropriate for your client unless there is an absolute requirement for LAN operations, since it is not an LAN-oriented product. If you'd like more information, please send me your mailing address and we'll be glad to send out detailed info. Thanks much. --Lauren-- Vortex Technology (213) 455-9300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jim Kissel <uunet!siesoft.co.uk!jlk> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 09:56:05 +0100 Subject: E-Mail for PC's We have a RFC-1056 based pc<->unix mail system called EPS. EPS is a MS-Windows based front end with a mail repository on the Unix machine. Sendmail interworks with the repository. RFC-1056 is the protocol over tcp/ip that the EPS front end talks to the repository. The product is in alpha test at present and we expect beta sites to be setup in Europe in lat October or early November, with a product release in English (US) and German about Feb 1, 1990. Jim Kissel Telephone +44 734 691994 Siemens plc 734 443046 (Direct line) Systems Development Group Fax +44 734 698847 65-73 Crockhamwell Rd. Telex 846053 SIESOF G Woodley, Reading Berkshire, RG5 3JP Domain jlk@siesoft.co.uk Great Britain UUCP ....ukc!siesoft!jlk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 22:38:23 PDT From: uunet!tektronix.TEK.COM!gvgpsa.gvg.TEK.COM!davew (David C. White) Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA Try looking at PC/TCP from FTP Software, Inc. I'm at home now so I don't have their number available. They have a good SMTP implementation in their package. If you can't find their number let me know and I will send it to you. -- Dave White Grass Valley Group, Inc. VOICE: +1 916.478.3052 P.O. Box 1114 Grass Valley, CA 95945 FAX: +1 916.478.3887 Internet: davew@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com UUCP: ...!tektronix!gvgpsa!davew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Re: Email packages for DOS-UNIX and DOS-DOS Organization: Shakedown St. Public Access Unix - New Brunswick, NJ Date: 18 Aug 89 16:37:32 EDT (Fri) From: uunet!allegra!althea!eddjp (Dewey Paciaffi) There is a uucp workalike for MS-DOS called pc-uupc. You may be able to find it in your favorite archive site. If not, marob, an archive in NYC has it available for anon-uucp, if you're desparate enough to make that call. I have it working between a Xenix/386 and a DOS PS/2. It does mail (rmail) and can also be set up for rnews. It's pretty neat. It assumes the master role OK, but looks to need some hacking to get the slave side to work. Let me know if you can't find it, and I'll e-mail you the particulars for 'marob'. Dewey Paciaffi eddjp@althea.UUCP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 16:17:53 +0100 Subject: Re: Email packages for DOS-UNIX and DOS-DOS Organization: Siemens SDG, Woodley, England Status: RO We are developing something that might just fit the bill. It is called EPS (Electronic Postal System), and runs on PC's, but uses a Unix box as the file store and mail driver. Ultimately, it will incorporate X400 etc. Please mail me back if you want more info. Jack Knight jfk@siesoft.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!siesoft!jfk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 10:36:22 EDT From: uunet!dgbt.crc.dnd.ca!andrew (Andrew Patrick (DBR)) Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA I have been looking around for DOS-UNIX and DOS-DOS mailers as well. Sun has a product (Lifeline) that works with PC-NFS and provides mail to/from a PC using either the POP or SMTP protocols. Under POP, mail is held on the NFS server until it is requested by the client PC. Although Lifeline gives most of the features I need, and it's DOS interface is fairly good, I can't get it to work reliably on my network. We are running about 6 AT clones using 3C503 cards and a VAX server. Although PC-NFS's psuedodrives work fine, Lifeline seems to be very buggy. One is never sure when outgoing mail has been delivered correctly, and it seems to hang the machines a lot. Now we don't run our ATs in a "standard way" -- we use the Carousel memory swapping environment and we have them "revved" up in other ways. People from Sun tell me my problems are unique, and other people do not report such problems. I am still looking for alternatives to Lifeline. FTP software sells its own version of NFS (called Interdrive) and they have mail support. However, it seems to only use the SMTP model, which means that the PC has to be waiting in SMTP mode when the server deamon fires up to send mail. The POP model seems like the best way to handle mail on the PC. The only other software I have seen that uses the POP model is put out by Stanford Univ., but only to "qualified degree-granting institutions." Please let me know what you find out. -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Communications Research Centre (613) 990-4675 Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA UUCP or Internet: andrew@dgbt.crc.dnd.ca BITNET: andrew@doccrc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Alan S. Denney @ Informix Software, Inc. {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "I want to live! -------------------------------------------- as an honest man, Disclaimer: These opinions are mine alone. to get all I deserve If I am caught or killed, the secretary and to give all I can." will disavow any knowledge of my actions. - S. Vega
dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) (09/13/89)
I probably will regret doing this, but I figured it'll come out sooner or later... Mush has been ported to dos to use with uupc as the MTA. It runs on a small configuration (640K ram) pretty well. It works fastest on OS/2, apparently. This is all info given to me by the person who did the port. Now, before you all rush out and mail me for the dos version -- I have not integrated the DOS patches into the latest version since several releases ago and altho nothing has been introduced that would prevent another port from taking place, I have not had the time to deal with this situation. If enough interest is generated, I will mail the person who did the port and ask if he wants to support the DOS version. Dan Heller <island!argv@sun.com>