robert%juno@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri) (10/01/90)
Hi, We have some PC's hooked up to our unix machines through ethernet running PC-NFS. Does anybody know of a utility which will permit people to read,save and send mail from the PC's rather than having to login to one of the unix hosts? This would be very handy since some people have PC's running PC-NFS in their rooms, know very little about unix but still like to use email. We are using sendmail as mail delivery system. Any help appreciated. -- Dr. Roberto Togneri Dept. of EE Engineering EMAIL: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au The University of Western Australia INTERNET: robert@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au
robert%zeus@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri) (10/01/90)
OK, I think I've put my foot in it this time. If I had read my PC-NFS manual it describes a product called PC-NFS LifeLine which is exactly what I was asking for. So that it wasn't a complete loss I'll change my query to: Has anybody used PC-NFS LifeLine? What do you think of it? Also how much does it cost if we already have PC-NFS 3.0.1? Thanks for your help, -- Dr. Roberto Togneri Dept. of EE Engineering EMAIL: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au The University of Western Australia INTERNET: robert@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au
wswietse@svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) (10/01/90)
robert%juno@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri) writes: > We have some PC's hooked up to our unix machines through ethernet >running PC-NFS. Does anybody know of a utility which will permit people >to read,save and send mail from the PC's rather than having to login to >one of the unix hosts? This would be very handy since some people have >PC's running PC-NFS in their rooms, know very little about unix but >still like to use email. We are using sendmail as mail delivery system. Instead of using SMTP, you might consider to use the pc-mail package. It manages a mail data base (directory) that can be mounted from a file server. The DOS users can use their favourite text editor to compose messages. Daemon processes running on the file server take care of message delivery. The user interface programs can even be run under UNIX, so that people can use the same user interface when they dial in from outside. Sources/binaries can be ftped from host ftp.win.tue.nl (131.155.2.8). The following is a list of features available with the second release that was posted January 1990 to comp.sources.misc. @(#) FEATURES 2.1 90/01/22 13:52:19 The following is a summary of features available with the second pc-mail release. Features not available in the initial release are tagged with (new). - (new) A user tutorial. - Messages can be composed with any word processing package that produces clean ASCII textfiles. - Alias data base to map human-readable names to ugly mail ad- dresses. - (new) Customized header lines and signatures. - (new) Selective suppression of ugly header lines. - (new) Subject: lines are shown in the message-selection menus. - (new) A reply command that extracts the sender's address from the message being replied to. The text of the original message can be included in the reply. - (new) Piping of messages through a command; this is useful for messages that contain encoded files. - (new) Support for message transport through daemon processes that run on a file server. Tested with System-V Release 2 and SunOS 4.0.3 and later SunOS releases.
asbuilt@sjrpp.UUCP (SJRPP CAD Drafting Staff) (10/01/90)
In article <robert.654758277@zeus> robert%zeus@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri) writes)
:-) OK,
:-) I think I've put my foot in it this time. If I had read my
:-) PC-NFS manual it describes a product called PC-NFS LifeLine which
:-) is exactly what I was asking for. So that it wasn't a complete loss
:-) I'll change my query to:
:-)
:-) Has anybody used PC-NFS LifeLine? What do you think of it?
:-) Also how much does it cost if we already have PC-NFS 3.0.1?
:-)
:-) Thanks for your help,
:-) --
:-) Dr. Roberto Togneri
:-) Dept. of EE Engineering EMAIL: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
:-) The University of Western Australia INTERNET: robert@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au
We use PC-NFS Lifeline here and have no major problems with it.
The only thing that is strange is that Lifeline Mail puts the
retrieved mail spool files in <%NFSDRIVE%>/nfsmail/<LOGNAME> which
makes it a little trouble to retrive read mail for follow-ups
from the unix side. We define %NFSDRIVE% as a logical (net) drive
which allows us to access read mail from the UNIX terminals. It also
creates a ".ndx" file for each folder for some reason?
I'm going to take a look at some other PC-UNIX mail utility
programs (pcmail is one I can think of) for comparison.
One nice thing about the Lifeline product is it's relative
low cost ($125) and the back-up utility that tar's your pc files
(hard disk or logical drives) to tape or whatever.
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