buckij@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Jonathan S. Bucki) (06/19/91)
Hello, I'm looking for a PC-UNIX mailreader for use on a novell network. I can't use something like a pegasus/charon setup because we'd like to keep all the mail on a centralized mail server instead of dishing it out to many machines. Does anyone have any suggestions? Jonathan Bucki St. Olaf ACC buckij@acc.stolaf.edu
mikeo@.usc.edu (Mike O'Rourke) (06/19/91)
There is a popmail program available via anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu. It is popmail.exe in the \pub\POPmail\msdos\version_2.1.0 directory. There were some changes that I was waiting for before using it myself, but perhaps it will suit your needs. -- Mike O'Rourke Internet: mikeo@usc.edu PC Consultant/Network Analyst UUCP: ...!uunet!usc!mikeo University of Southern California Tel: (213) 342-2931
marty@wwoh.com (Martin B. Winston) (06/20/91)
buckij@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Jonathan S. Bucki) writes: > I'm looking for a PC-UNIX mailreader for use on a novell network. One way is to install Waffle and run uucico from cronjr. If you have MHS, there's a UGATE UUCP gateway now in beta - should be downloadable from CompuServe NOVA by next month - that can handle UNIX-MHS conversions (both directions) for mail. __________/\/\.\/\/. "May all your sins be original, or good copies." Marty Winston ______________________________________________________________________ | Martin B. Winston, APR | Compuserve: 71327,1266 | uunet!wwoh!marty |\ | Russell, OH 44072 | MHS: Marty@WWOH | BIX: MartyWW | | | (216) 338-8400 | fax: 216-338-8117 | WB8LBV | | |________________________|_________________________|___________________| | \______________________________________________________________________\|
michel@csi.uottawa.ca (Michel Racine) (06/26/91)
Jonathan Bucki was saying: >I'm looking for a PC-UNIX mailreader for use on a novell network. I can't use >something like a pegasus/charon setup because we'd like to keep all the >mail on a centralized mail server instead of dishing it out to many >machines. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have been investigating this area in the past few weeks for our own needs. We evaluated both POP clients and charon. Popmail and pcpop use the post-office protocol and do give you centralized mail, which is great. But one major requirement was to let the PC user know about mail just being received (sort of like biff). None of the popmail clients that we saw allowed you to do that. They also could not tell you that you had mail when you logged in to novell. Another negative aspect was that both software had annoying interfaces and 'features'... (eg: popmail cannot display more than 4 pages of a mail message). The combination of charon/pmail poses the disadvantage of decentralizing mail (we are in the process of setting it up, so I don't know exactly how decentralized - eg, when you send mail from pc to pc, can you force it to go to the unix host first?). But charon will notify you when mail just came in. Pmail has an excellent user interface. Charon also gives you seamless network-wide printing between unix and novell, which is something else we are after... I have not come up with a final decision yet, but charon/pmail are likely to win. Please let me know if you find other means of doing this. I haven't examined MHS from Novell. What can it give? Is it still decentralized? Are there other pop clients (other than popmail and pcpop)? Do you know how to make them biff novell users when they receive mail? Cheers! -- Michel Racine | e-mail: michel@csi.uottawa.ca Department of Computer Science | University of Ottawa | phone : (613) 564-5424 Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada | fax : (613) 564-9486
moore@esseye.UUCP (David Moore) (06/27/91)
>I have not come up with a final decision yet, but charon/pmail are likely >to win. Please let me know if you find other means of doing this. I haven't >examined MHS from Novell. What can it give? Is it still decentralized? Are >there other pop clients (other than popmail and pcpop)? Do you know how >to make them biff novell users when they receive mail? What's the matter with cc:Mail? It works great for us and there are lots of applications written which utilize it (like NetWork Scheduler -- a shareable calendar). -- David Moore | moore@si.com Smiths Industries | Grand Rapids Michigan | my comments are my own -- not my employers'.
rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (06/29/91)
moore@esseye.UUCP (David Moore) writes: >What's the matter with cc:Mail? It works great for us and there are >lots of applications written which utilize it (like NetWork Scheduler -- >a shareable calendar). It's expensive. It doesn't have a built-in Internet/SMTP-compatible interface; you pay extra and have to set up a dedicated PC. And cc:Mail, an independent company, was recently bought out by Lotus. Lotus is litigious and will get as little of my business as I can give it. My company uses cc:Mail and most users are happy with it, but I don't like the configuration problems which have resulted from our move to integrate our Novell LAN with other networks. -rich