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From: mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXTmail through a modem
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Date: 22 Feb 91 05:43:47 GMT
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Several days ago, I had posted the following question:

>I have a cube at home, and I dial in to my campus account using kermit.  I
>recently have begun keeping all my mail on my computer at home, and I have
>done this by downloading my mbox files.  Also, I can easily get any incoming
>mail from my campus account by copying the /usr/spool/mail file to home.
>
>The problem is in sending mail from my computer at home.  There is no problem
>with sending text mail by cutting and pasting, but how does one send NeXTmail?
>After taking a look through the man pages for sendmail, I'm still unsure how
>to do it.  Would I have to manually tar, compress, and uuencode the mail and
>then use kermit to transfer the file, or is there an easier way?

I have received several good answers from people, and I would like to summarize.
One way to send NeXTmail is as follows:

-I can't remember the details, but I did this by letting NeXTmail do it for me.
-I composed a message in NeXTmail and sent it to myself on my NeXT.  I then took
-the resulting mail file and stripped the header info using my favorite editor.
-I transferred this file via kermit to my remote host where I mailed it using
-"mail recipient@address < NeXTmail_file".  Give it a try!

This is a what I'm doing now, and I can now both send and receive NeXTmail. But
the best solution is to install UUCP.  However, you need a remote computer
with a UUCP account for this.

-My solution to this problem was to install UUCP in my cube,
-and then ask for a UUCP account on the public vax maintained
-by my employer. Now I can compose
-messages on my NeXT cube and mail them out, and receive
-mail directly on my machine at home.
-  To do this, you need NeXT's documentation on installing
-UUCP. It is freely available by ftp from the net, for
-instance it is on nova.cc.purdue.edu, or, if you have 
-NextStep 2.0, it is part of the Networking and System
-Administration guide.
-  Basically, you modify a bunch of files to enable uucp,
-and connect to a host through your modem. The host must have
-a uucp account set up for you.

Using these suggestions, everybody who has a NeXT at home can now be part of
the "interpersonal world".  Thanks everybody for your replies.

                                Varun Mitroo
                                mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu


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