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From: wswietse@svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
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Subject: Re: Using SMTP mail from DOS
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Date: 1 Oct 90 11:30:29 GMT
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robert%juno@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri) writes:

>   We have some PC's hooked up to our unix machines through ethernet
>running PC-NFS. Does anybody know of a utility which will permit people
>to read,save and send mail from the PC's rather than having to login to
>one of the unix hosts? This would be very handy since some people have
>PC's running PC-NFS in their rooms, know very little about unix but
>still like to use email. We are using sendmail as mail delivery system.

Instead of using SMTP, you might consider to use the pc-mail package.
It manages a mail data base (directory) that can be mounted from a
file server. The DOS users can use their favourite text editor to
compose messages. Daemon processes running on the file server take 
care of message delivery. The user interface programs can even be
run under UNIX, so that people can use the same user interface when
they dial in from outside.

Sources/binaries can be ftped from host ftp.win.tue.nl (131.155.2.8).

The following is a list of features available with the second release
that was posted January 1990 to comp.sources.misc.

@(#) FEATURES 2.1 90/01/22 13:52:19

The following is a summary of features available with the  second
pc-mail  release.   Features not available in the initial release
are tagged with (new).

- (new) A user tutorial.

- Messages can be composed with any word processing package  that
produces clean ASCII textfiles.

- Alias data base to map human-readable names to  ugly  mail  ad-
dresses.

- (new) Customized header lines and signatures.

- (new) Selective suppression of ugly header lines.

- (new) Subject: lines are shown in the message-selection menus.

- (new) A reply command that extracts the sender's  address  from
the  message  being  replied to. The text of the original message
can be included in the reply.

- (new) Piping of messages through a command; this is useful  for
messages that contain encoded files.

- (new) Support for message transport  through  daemon  processes
that  run  on  a  file server. Tested with System-V Release 2 and
SunOS 4.0.3 and later SunOS releases.