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- From: koops@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Luke Koops)
- Subject: Connecting LAN mail with Internet mail?
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:37:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.203714.14065@julian.uwo.ca>
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- At my place of work, we are presently trying to decide which Email
- package to use in an enterprise-wide capacity. We are presently
- installing a communications backbone which will support a large (100s of
- nodes) Novell-based LAN. In the future, we hope to add an Internet
- gateway to the local university, so that all of our users may have mail
- access to the Internet (this will no doubt involve adding an Internet
- host of some kind -- we need something with an IP address, and to route
- mail, and to resolve addresses?).
-
- The scenario is this:
-
- Internet
- .
- .
- |
- ----+----
- | ??? |
- ----+----
- |
- /|\
- /| | |\
- . . . . \
- . . . . \
- (users on LAN)
-
-
- The email packages we are looking at are CC:mail, MS mail, and Beyond
- Mail.
-
- I know that I have given a rather vague picture of our eventual
- configuration. The important piece is that we need to have mail for
- user A, coming in off the Internet in an Internet format, translated to
- whatever message standard our LAN mail package uses, and filed with the
- user's mail agent (probably an NLM running on a Novell file server?). I
- think that the three mail packages mentioned above purport to do that,
- but we are unable to verify this at the present time.
-
- My question then, is:
-
- * Have you had experience using a LAN-based mail package coupled with
- an Internet connectivity requirement? (ie. Are you presently
- operating a setup similar to the one shown above, and with which
- products, and with how much success?)
-
- Any and all answers would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks,
-
- ...Steve van der Burg
- koops@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
-
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