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From: cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mailing between UNIX and DOS
Message-ID: <1045@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Dec 89 11:15:30 GMT
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Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK
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drich@dialogic.uucp (Dan Rich) writes:

>  Recently we installed Racal/Interlan's Gateway to connect the two
>networks.  Now, this works well for file transfer and remote logins,
>but their mail software is horrible.  Their SMTP product will send
>mail to UNIX, and they have a program that will accept incomming mail
>from UNIX and store it in the system mailbox.  Unfortunately, neither
>of these is compatable with Novell mail, and Interlan's mail program
>is almost unusable.

One other thing you will find is that if you upgrade your Novell to (in the 
case of Advanced NetWare) v2.1x, MAIL ceases to exist; it's not provided on the
new system. This is a bit of a pain, but not a bad idea (Novell Mail is, in my
and many people at my office's opinion, crap. [Not here at UEA, but a company I
work for in the holidays]. I don't know if there are other MAIL systems 
available for Novell (there's always Coordinator, but that's a bit big if you
only want a simple message passing facility)

>                                        ...  (The Novell mailbox
>is a file named after your userid.  I don't know where to find the
>userid.) 

Nor do I - if anyone knows PLEASE tell me, cos it'll make my life so much
easier. It must be fairly accessible, cos SYSCON does it at will.

	Dave Cartwright, UEA, Norwich, ENGLAND.

Note : I think Novell mail is pretty awful; you may disagree, but that's only
       my opinion, so don't shout at me or anything like that.
       Also, I doubt whether UEA (my university) share my views; I am not 
       referring to any of their systems in this article, only those of the
       company I work for in the holidays.