KELLY@DCSPROD.BYU.EDU (Kelly McDonald) (05/02/89)
We are currently using the ka9q Internet program as an SMTP gateway to our novell lans. We have a PC that sits on the novell lan and also on our campus ethernet. It acts as an IP router, a netware bridge (with the packet driver stuff) and an ftp and smtp server. Incoming smtp mail is received by the PC and stored in directories for the novell users. Novell users run a mail agent program that we wrote that manipulates the received mail, and allows creation of outgoing messages that are placed in a mail queue for the gateway PC to send off periodically. The mail agent has the look and feel of Wordperfect, and will operate under Wordperfect Office. A user can elect to use Wordperfect as the editor for the mail agent. It does not handle binary file transfer, but adheres to SMTP textual formats. For local delivery on the lan from one user to another, the PC gateway is not utilized. We do not currently use Novell's MHS with the gateway, but it could easily be utilized to interface with a commercial mail agent. (ka9q is quite extensible). We have thought about but not tried printing on lpd printers from Novell print queues. One idea we are going to try is to use the commercial "LANSPOOL" program to interface to the Netware print queue. It has a feature to invoke a user program after a queue entry is selected for printing. It copies the print queue entry into a temporary file then invokes a user program to post process the file. With our Novell shell over packet driver system, that user program could be the "lpr" command from CMU's PCIP that would take the print queue entry and send it off to a Unix lpd printer.