dan@meritaus.UUCP (Daniel Haug) (02/27/90)
We desire to establish email between our MacII and our Unix network.
We recently setup a Kinetics Fastpath box and installed CAP
(columbia appletalk package) on our system. I know of two commercial
solutions to the email problem:
- Inbox (from the TOPS people at Sun), but it currently does not
convert to SMTP, which is a necessity. It is also expensive (~$1000)
considering that we only want to connect one Mac.
- GatorMail (which uses the Gatorbox, which we don't have)... it
DOES convert to SMTP, but it too is around $1000. Also, I believe
Gatormail is only the mail converter, and that it operates with
three different mail programs on the mac.
Surely people have solved this problem before. Are there any cheaper
solutions than the $1000 alternative (e.g. PD stuff?). Or even
some PD mail converters that work with Quickmail(?).
Email is appreciated, as I am not a regular reader of these newsgroups.
thanks!
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``When all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.''chris@cayman.COM (Chris North) (03/05/90)
In article <475@meritaus.UUCP>, dan@meritaus.UUCP (Daniel Haug) writes: > - GatorMail (which uses the Gatorbox, which we don't have)... it > DOES convert to SMTP, but it too is around $1000. Also, I believe > Gatormail is only the mail converter, and that it operates with > three different mail programs on the mac. Actually GatorMail does NOT require a GatorBox. Both GatorMail-Q and GatorMail-M will run on their respective servers. The connection to your ethernet can be made with either a GatorBox or a FastPath, or the Mac can be directly connected with an Ethernet card. GatorMail will not work with an EtherGate, Liaison, or an Internet Router as it requires and IP gateway. -- ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Chris North Internet:chris@cayman.com Cayman Systems Phone: 617-494-1999 FAX: 617-494-9270 26 Landsdowne Street Cambridge MA 02139