douglas@wybbs.mi.org (Douglas Mason) (04/22/91)
Does anyone have any actual experiance with Novell Lan and SMTP / Internet
connectivity? Here's the situation:
Novell 3.1 and 2.15c servers (both Acer 386/25s), ethernet, no more than 50
or so users, heavy database useage (don't ask me what database we currently
use -- unless you have eaten already...). A couple of those screaming XTs
running PC-Anywhere for remote access, XT running modem dialout using a
popular peer-to-peer modem sharing program. Blah, blah, blah, pretty mild
network. Couple of gigs of aged database data.
Here's plan A:
Try to find some type of software (ka9Q, etc?) to possibly sit on a dedicated
machine that has some type of ASYNC (9600 baud modem) hanging on it that will
call out to a local unix machine to bounce netmail (Usenet news isn't really
necessary) out to the Internet. Said machine polls a few times a day to pick
up on incoming mail as well.
Since we currently use CC:Mail (although not extensively), I saw that they
have an SMTP gateway. Will this accomplish what we are trying to do? Are
there other products out there that can (relatively inexpensively) work as
some sort of gateway to bounce mail (using their mailer or CC:mail or hell,
Word Perfect Editor){ to a smart unix mailer using UUCP protocol?
I realize there are solutions with setting up some type of TCP/IP protocol
and having SCO (which sits in a box holding a door open) or some other type
of unix box to bounce mail, but I would like to see about keeping it all under
DOS to ease the justification and maintaince of it all.
Any ideas, emailed, posted, or screamed in vain would be appreciated.
Douglas Mason | Network Admin | Beene, Garter & Co. | Grand Rapids, MI