derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (02/15/91)
I have MS Mail running with the GatorMail-M SMTP gateway. Works fine, last a long time. I have been interested in being able to access mail from a non-Macintosh workstation, either via dial-up or telnet. I am often away from my desk and can get to many different workstations that have telnet capability but without some capability to get into MS Mail I am stumped. What I am looking for is a line-mode or vt100 emulation access to Mac OS or to the mail server directly. I have tried to telnet to the mailserver's port 25 and have successfully gotten connected but none of the commands work. Alternately, can the MacOs be dialed into and get a line mode type connection? NOTE: I know about hardware to dial into a mac network but these are generally too slow at less than 19.2kbs as they try and return the entire screen image. This is not what I want. BTW: GatorMail-M is coming out with the ability to automatically forward mail (inbound) to other servers. Once this happens I can have all my mac mail forwarded to our unix system. Of course this would mean that all included files would need to be sent back to the mac for decoding....and this would only work for included files with smtp ...and who would I send it to, my own account?...then it would be sent back to myself again...circular logic...if I alias my unix id to my mac account I could start a mailer that would circulate forever! Thanks. -- = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group = = e-mail: ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net = = Applelink: N1111 = =I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message = -- = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group = = e-mail: ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net = = Applelink: N1111 = =I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message =