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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip Subject: Re: SMTP to WFW 3.11... Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 07:57:51 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 60 Message-ID: <32BCE9FF.7691@www.play-hookey.com> References: <5922p9$6av@raven.eva.net> <599lre$ats@raven.eva.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.misc:32607 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32978 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc:15396 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:29703 J.C. Archambeau wrote: > > In article <599106$4mn@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> you wrote: > > : You need a TCP stack for WFW. Once you've got that, put NetBIOS on top > : for disk & printer access (via samba) and you should be able to find an > : email package out there that will "pop" your mail (using IP) via popper. > > Got the M$ TCP32B.EXE TCP/IP stack for WFW 3.11. There is another one > sitting on simtel that I'm going to pull down and evaluate as well with > an email package that supports SMTP/POP. > > : This sort of thing is a lot easier with Win95 'cos all the TCP & NetBIOS > : on TCP stuff comes as standard. Also, M$s mailnews.exe & IE packages > : will do the rest for you. > > Is mailnews.exe a WFW or strictly Win95 program? Excuse my Win > ignorance, it was not until recently I was force fed Win sysadm duties > in a *nix server based LAN. Until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't > do 'doze. You have my condolences. I'm running a mixed environment at home, and an even more mixed one at work. I find that Eudora is an eminently practical e-mail package for Windoze -- runs nicely on 3.1, WFW3.11, and 95. I haven't seen it on NT yet, but if we ever actually go to an all-NT setup at work, we will no doubt be using the MegaSlop mail system instead. Eudora Lite is freeware; you can buy the Pro version if you want the added capabilities. The POP server is a FreeBSD box running 2.1R in both places -- no problems serving mail to any of the other platforms we've tried. > > : As far as the transparent stuff is concerned, it depends on what you've > : got your FreeBSD box plugged into. If it's a serial ISP connection, the > : upcoming ppp with -alias support is your man. If it's a direct connection, > : you may want to try socks5 or ipfilter(NAT). > > It's going to be a dialin 33.6K connection via PPP for now. I've been > following the PPP articles closely and saving them for future reference. > This may be good for additional material for the handbook or a webpage > since PPP has become the new network daemon that needs to be properly > sysadm'd into submission. :) > My home connection is also a 33.6K dialup for now (when I win the Lottery.... :-) ). My gateway machine is also my Web server and mail server. Since it is a Web server, I'm using pppd with a 24/7 connection to my ISP. I find that the main hassle with not buying a dedicated port is that the ISP will dump you for inactivity, so as to free the port for another user. The best way to go, of course, is determined by what you want to do. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |