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From: hermit@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
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Subject: Re: LAN E-mail package for Windows 3.0
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Date: 7 Apr 91 03:48:17 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.215709.1@max.u.washington.edu> 8416629@max.u.washington.edu writes:
|We have a Novell LAN with serveral workstations and Windows 3.0 on them.
|Everything is working fine. But we lack one thing that is growing
|more essencial. We need an E-mail package for the LAN that   
|will run on Windows 3.0. We are looking at several commercial E-mail
|packages but they are going to cost us an arm and a leg from us.
|We were wondering if there is a shareware/PD E-mail packages that
|we could take a look at. It doesn't need to have all the fancy
|features of an expensive package.                            
| 
|Any help/info would be greatly appreciated...

Here's an idea, but it might take a little work.  Use MUSH-PC (available
from simtel/wuarchive).  You'll have to write or obtain a program that
takes as input an RFC822 compatible message (Internet mail) and delivers
mail to the right recipient.  This would be the way to go if you want to
connect to outside hosts using UUCP (by running UUPC 1.09c).

I don't know much about Novell.  It seems that you should be able to
work it so that mail for each user is delivered (possibly via a
pseudo-user with root (or whatever it's called in Novell) powers) to
their own work area.  Or if security is not important you can just use a
publicly readable area.

Both MUSH and UUPC work under Windows as non-Windows applications
(I send and receive mail at home under just that setup, so I could give
a few pointers on setting up UUPC with MUSH, but not on the Novell
part).  Since both these programs are free, I think it's worth looking
into, but only if you know someone who would write the appropriate
utility to deliver local mail.  If I knew more about Novell and had
access to a Novell network I'd offer my services for this project (for a
suitable fee, of course) but I don't so I won't.

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William R Ward                      University of California, Santa Cruz
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