fore@athena.cs.uga.edu (Howard Fore) (02/06/91)
Enough already about all these d*mn POP mail servers! The only answer about a POP server here at the University of Georgia is "What's POP?" Is there a program similar to Eudora for a SMTP (Smart Mail Transfer Protocol - I think) mail server? If so where can I get a copy? Help me please! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Fore fore@athena.cs.uga.edu (128.192.4.49)
jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) (02/07/91)
Howard Fore asks: >Is there a program similar to Eudora for a SMTP (Smart Mail Transfer >Protocol - I think) mail server? Unfortunately, no. The SMTP protocol does not provide the hooks needed to use it as a client-to-mailboxserver protocol. Macs are typically not up enough of the time to be available as mailbox servers if all you have is sender-initiated mail transfer. SMTP as originally designed had a "TURN" command that was supposed to provide this, but that turned out to be an unacceptable security problem. Now, one could imagine an implementation of an SMTP server on a Unix box that treated TURN as an indication that it should call back the putative caller asap. So one could imagine having an SMTP server on a Mac that contacted its favorite mail relay system (and to which MXs for the Mac pointed!), told it "ok, I'm up. Call me back and deliver mail", then waited while the Unix box sent it all the mail it had stored up for that Mac. Of course, this doesn't solve addressing problems. I don't really want my mailbox name to be associated with a particular Mac, since I use several Macs. Worse, I don't want my mailbox name associated with a dynamically assigned (by my Kbox) IP address! -- JQ Johnson Director of Network Services Internet: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu University of Oregon voice: (503) 346-4394 250E Computing Center BITNET: jqj@oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1212 fax: (503) 346-4397
laf@mitre.org (Lee Fyock) (02/07/91)
In article <1991Feb6.184037.28420@ns.uoregon.edu> jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) writes: >Howard Fore asks: >>Is there a program similar to Eudora for a SMTP (Smart Mail Transfer >>Protocol - I think) mail server? > >Unfortunately, no. <stuff deleted> Actually, there is. I wrote a program that uses MacTCP to handle SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). I keep it in the background (under Multifinder) and when mail comes in, it says my name... >Of course, this doesn't solve addressing problems. I don't really want >my mailbox name to be associated with a particular Mac, since I use several >Macs. Worse, I don't want my mailbox name associated with a dynamically >assigned (by my Kbox) IP address! This is a problem. People can't send you mail, if they don't know what your address-of-the-day is! We use "manual" addressing here, so I can receive mail directly to my mac. If there's any interest, I'll post LeeMail :-) to c.b.m. and sumex. Lee Fyock laf@mitre.org