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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Mac-Unix SMTP/POP2 E-mail package
Summary: How about a GatorBox ?
Keywords: E-mail GatorBox SMTP
Message-ID: <1291@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 18:17:48 GMT
Expires: 31 May 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <8905162206.AA05738@berlin.acss.umn.edu>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
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Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <8905162206.AA05738@berlin.acss.umn.edu> fxa@BERLIN.ACSS.UMN.EDU ("Farhad Anklesaria") writes:
>We have developed a package for sending and receiving SMTP
>mail to/from Macs on AppleTalk networks.  The package is in 
>two parts: a front-end HyperCard stack that runs on the 
>Macintosh and a back-end Post Office Protocol (POP2) server 
>that runs on a Unix machine. If your Macs are connected to
>an AppleTalk network you must have a Kinetics fastpath to 
>gateway between the AppleTalk network and the ethernet that 
>your Unix host resides on. If your Mac is connected directly
>to ethernet, you don't need a fastpath.

Not being familiar with the internals of either, I need to ask:
  Would it be possible to run your mail package through a 
  Cayman GatorBox to provide the LocalTalk-to-Ethernet connection ?
If you don't have one, you could check your package out on ours.....
we're not too far away.

One other question.  You mention that incoming mail just becomes another
card in the HyperCard stack.  Does that mean Hypercard must be active
in order for you to receive mail, or does your package add to the stack
independent of Hypercard ?  If so, are there potential problems if you
are traversing the stack with HyperCard while receiving mail ?

To sum up, your package sounds VERY interesting to me.

M. A. Pasek         Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
(612) 638-7668             CNG Development               2700 N. Snelling Ave.
pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM                              Roseville, MN  55113