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- From: ntprlr@eskimo.com (NightProwler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Netware and cc: Mail post offices
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.055653.5313@eskimo.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:56:53 GMT
- References: <TODD.93Jan21104132@todd.kastle.com>
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- Organization: Ghost in the Shell
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- Todd A. Scalzott (todd@kastle.com) wrote:
- : For instance, if I create a remote post office that exists within a
- : directory on the same file server as the main post office, then cc:Mail
- : will automatically place mail within that post office, with NO intervention
- : required.
-
- Hm. You must be talking about the MHS style 'export' stuff...that's the only
- time I've seen a pathname as an address in cc:Mail.
-
- :I do this now to allow users to send to an alternate post office
- : which is polled by one of my Unix boxes for mail destined for that side of
- : the house.
-
- cc:Mail for Unix? Or is this SMTP...
-
- : SO, if there was a way to share a directory from one file server to another
- : at the file server level, for instance...
-
- NFS? Have your UNIX box do an NFS mound of your Novell file server...ah, but
- that requires Netware NFS, which (last time I looked) lists for around $3-5K.
- Not really an option, eh?
-
- Tricky. I initially want to say that it can't be done, but IMPORT/EXPORT
- sounds like a promising way to hack around it. Maybe batch-ify the mail
- process so the user does a background 'export' to your target post office
- whenever they exit the mail program? You'd wind up exposing the p.o. password
- in the batch file, but it might be worth it. That way you "borrow" the user's
- cpu for the purpose of being the mail agent to finish the delivery process.
-
- I Dunno.
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