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- From: rkh@ucs.att.com (Bob Halloran)
- Subject: Re: MSMail <--> SMTP (Was: Re: TCP/IP, WFW, ethernet, and internet mail)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.165128.1663@ucs.att.com>
- Organization: AT&T Universal Card Services, Jacksonville FL
- References: <8892@lee.SEAS.UC <rick.104.724358768@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Dec22.140336.9232@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:51:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.140336.9232@alf.uib.no> im@cmr.no (Ingolf Magnus) writes:
- >The routing of messages between MS Mail and SMTP can be done in at
- > least two ways:
- >1. Installing a separete gateway PC, acting as a client to both the MSMail post office and the
- > SMTP mail server. This would poll and move messages between the two worlds at frequent
- > intervals, e.g. each 5 minutes.
- >2. If the PCs have TCP/IP stacks, install a Transport Service for MSMail, letting each MSMail
- > instance poll for, and deliver, mail to/from the SMTP server.
- >
- >Alternative 2 is the most elegant, and it is software-only. The Microsoft
- >MAPI (Message API) describes how to write a Transport Service (TS), using
- >the SPI (Service Provider Interface, part of MAPI). The TS is written as
- > a .DLL, and a reference to this DLL is registered in MSMAIL.INI
-
- The only problem is that the FULL MAPI kit, that includes the SPI facilities,
- won't be available from MicroLimp until late '93 or early '94, in the next
- MAJOR release of Windoze. The e-mail vendors such as Compu$erve, Lotus, WP,
- MCI & AT&T are SCREAMING. WFW only includes the 'Simple' MAPI, which only
- offers client interface code. Your choice for servers at the moment are
- MSMail and MSMail.
-
- >WELL, HAS ANYBODY DONE THIS ALREADY? I'm inspired to do it, but time
- >doesn't allow me right now.
- >
- >Btw, is the MSMail bundled with WfWG in any way crippled (as to e.g.
- > MAPI usage), or is it full 3.0 ?
-
- See above. See also why the US Federal Trade Commission thinks Billy's Boys
- may just be loading the deck a little in their own favor.
-
- Bob Halloran
- AT&T Universal Card
- Jacksonville FL
-
- rkh@ucs.att.com
- Any similarity between opinions stated here and AT&T's
- corporate opinion are purely coincidental.
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