lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) (03/17/90)
We have a recently-installed TCP/IP network. My office's connections to it are 2 PC/AT's with 3com ethernet boards (NCSA Telnet and ftp software; the ftp might be pc/tcp), and several terminals connected to a 3com TCP/IP terminal server. We'd like to find out how to forward our mail that goes to our accounts on Ultrix machines (2 of them, they're on the TCP/IP network) into a PC. 1. Would this PC be sitting there dedicated to looking at Ethernet and waiting to deliver mail? 2. Is there anything we could do to let several people share this PC, and keep each person's mail private? Is there anything besides a variant of unix that can have a single person login to a pc, deal with their mail, and logout? 3. We have a VMS VAXcluster that we _don't_ want hooked up to this TCP/IP backbone. Would it be an option to capture the mail on this pc, and send the mail from our pc to a VAX (over DECnet flavor ethernet or serial line) 4. Since we don't want to enslave a pc into being a mail server, could we set this up so that the pc captures mail at night, and is not hooked up to tcp/ip during the day? If there's a better newsgroup for this question, please let me know. Thanks for any help. --------- Esther Lumsdon --- with disclaimer; use disclaimer; ------------ At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. "Marshall Lumsden" employed by David Taylor Research Center lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil or lumsdon%dtrc.arpa 301-267-3816 av 281-3816