bonura@GOOFY (08/30/90)
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snicoud@ATC.BOEING.COM (Stephen L Nicoud) (08/30/90)
Date: 30 Aug 90 00:12:46 GMT
From: GOOFY!bonura@apple.com
Anyone have any information on how I start an SMTP server on a microexplorer so
that our VAX will deliver mail to me correctly? (Or isn't this even possible???).
THanks,
Tom
There is an SMTP server (function: MAIL::SMTP-MAIL-SERVER) in
"SYS:MAIL-DAEMON; SERVER.LISP#>"pf@islington-terrace.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) (08/30/90)
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 1990 7:43pm (CDT)
From: snicoud at atc.boeing.com (Stephen L Nicoud)
Subject: Starting an SMTP server on the microexplorer
Date: 30 Aug 90 00:12:46 GMT
From: GOOFY!bonura@apple.com
Anyone have any information on how I start an SMTP server on a microexplorer so
that our VAX will deliver mail to me correctly? (Or isn't this even possible???).
There is an SMTP server (function: MAIL::SMTP-MAIL-SERVER) in
"SYS:MAIL-DAEMON; SERVER.LISP#>"
Yes, but you shouldn't have to do anything special to start it. Try
telnetting to port 25 on your microExplorer from someplace handy (on
Unix, do "telnet <host> 25"; on any Explorer, type "<host>/25" at the
Telnet or VT100 host prompt). You should see the response "220 <host>
service ready". If so, the problem is not with your SMTP server.
Now, I could be wrong -- islington-terrace is an Explorer 2, not a
microExplorer -- but I don't think our microExplorer users had to do
anything special, either.
Paul Fuqua pf@csc.ti.com, ti-csl!pf
Texas Instruments Computer Science Center, Dallas, Texas
"I f***ed up." "Yes, but you gave it 100% effort." -- Mystic Pizzaacuff@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Richard Acuff) (08/30/90)
I advise against using any personal workstation as a mail "server". Their inherent unreliability and typically poorly tuned networking software tends to make mail a headache. We believe this strongly enough to have invented a mail access protocol and produced servers and clients for it. The idea is to have a few well tuned transport/server agents that know how to move mail around (via SMTP, BITNET, uucp, fax modems, or carrier pigeon, ...) as well as how to store it in some fashion well suited to the server machine. Then each machine you might want to read mail on has a client that knows how to talk to the server to do operations like "Give me the body of message 22" or "Which messages have 'acuff' in the From: field?", but conspicuously do not know how the mail is actually stored on the server. The revised protocol (crufty beast that it is...) is described in a recent RFC by Mark Crispin (sorry, I can't recall the number) and was in an earlier RFC as well. We currently have Unix (native format and MM format) and Tops-20 servers. Mark has a NeXT client and I think his lab is working on a PC client. We have clients for Explorer/mX, Mac, Unix/tty and Xerox D-machine and are working on an X11-based client. I think the server, and perhaps the Mac client are available via anonymous FTP to SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU in the "imap" directory. If there is interest we can make the Explorer client available sooner rather than later. Documentation is scarce for it. -- Rich