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From: doug@letni.LawNet.Com (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Gateway between 3Com 3+mail and Unix mail?
Summary: One real headache
Message-ID: <299@letni.LawNet.Com>
Date: 24 Feb 89 02:39:30 GMT
References: <461@uvabick.UUCP> <986@durin.middle_earth.COM> <20@gldsyd.OZ>
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In article <20@gldsyd.OZ> mbroadbe@gldsyd.OZ (Mark Broadbent) writes:
>matthew@uvabick.UUCP (Matthew D. Lewis) and frankh@durin.middle_earth.COM
>(Frank Halsema), both ask:
>> > Has anyone worked out a way to gateway 3+mail to Unix, and vica-versa?
>
>I also am looking for a solution to this problem.

Okay, here is what you need, (i've done it, and I know others who have
as well)

the 3+MAIL application library and documentation.
lots and lots of time.
MSC 5.0 or better
even more time.
a dedicated pc to use as a mail server.

Once you have screamed at 3com long enough and have "obtained" the
afformentioned software, you will need to spend eons of time
expermenting with the library routines since they don't
work like they are documented.

What you then need to write is something that will connect
to a "unix" box via the port on the pc and dig up/parse 
the mail on that side and feed it to the 3com apps stuff.

Next you will need to call the little function that gets mail
for you from the 3mail server.  Scan thru your mail directory
move the files over to unix, parse up the files and pass
them off to the unix mailer. 


Sorry I can't be more specific, its quite an involved project,
if you have a not-so general question about the gateway send mail
to the addresses below and I will try to answer it.

Also, don't even consider attempting this with out a good
working knowledge of C, Unix mailers, and MooseDos. Even
with the above, the project is guaranteed to cause massive
headaches. ;-) There are myrads of little gotchas that
3com has, like messages can't be bigger than ~ 32k, etc.
Discovering all of them is great fun. (groan)


Sorry, I can't provide source, cuz I left it with the company
I used to work for. I checked before I wrote this and they
used the hard drive that the source was on for yet another
network disk to store more games on.


--
Doug Davis
Lawnet
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Arlington Texas  76015
817-467-3740

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