eln520h@monu1.cc.monash.oz (Julian Byrne) (10/14/90)
Anybody have the "Post Office Protocol Daemon" running under PC Minix using
ethernet? Or any SMTP (Unix) mailer for the Mac/PC?
If you're interested in the story read on:
We have a network of Mac's over localtalk and PC's over ethernet both using
a Novell file server and PC router to communicate with the outside world.
Telnet, FTP and Appleshare are running on the Mac's and
Telnet, FTP, IPX, lpr, ping, finger etc. are running on the PC's.
The missing link is mail. It needs to be *very* cheap. Solutions I've seen:
ka9q NOS/BM- An excellent package but not designed to coexist easily with
Novell and the mailer user interface is Unix like (definitely
not a plus - our Mac users look aghast every time I mention it).
I've modified it so that it can use Novell directory protections
to improve security but it still needs a fair bit of work to
make it useful and reliable in our environment.
Pegasus - Also a good package but it doesn't look like it will be ported
to the Mac any time soon. It also doesn't talk SMTP (yet?).
PCIP SMTP - Works, but can't handle mail reception.
Commercial - There are various packages available to join Novell MHS with
SMTP but all the ones I've seen cost big $'s and it is not at
at all clear that Mac's are supported.
POPmail - Available on Mac's and PC's at the right price. The user
interface is good, though PC users aren't notified of new mail.
Unfortunately it requires a multi-tasking server (i.e. Unix)
and we don't have one available. However, if somebody's ported
it to Minix...
So, if you've done this or are aware of any other cheap solution to mail for
Mac/PC/SMTP I'd really like to hear from you :^)
Please mail as I am not a regular reader of this news group.
If there is enough interest I'll post a summary.
Thanks,
Julian Byrne
julian.byrne@monash.edu.au
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Department
Monash University, Clayton 3168, Australia
Fax: + 61 3 565 3454
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p.s. I have a reasonable mail address: julian.byrne@monash.edu.au