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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!hardy.u.washington.edu!twarner From: twarner@hardy.u.washington.edu (Tom Warner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: e-mail via uucp, ported to Novell via TCP/IP? Message-ID: <1riu7mINNqbl@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 27 Apr 93 09:26:14 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1riu7mINNqbl Organization: University of Washington Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu Hello again, and thanks for the responses I received to my last post. I am trying to help a friend in Prague connect to internet e-mail, and the only affordable way to do this appears to be by uucp over high-speed modem. At the same time I am also helping him choose equipment for a Novell network, because he wants to run a mix of PC and Macintosh applications with a lot of filesharing between them. From what I've gathered so far, a PC-based BSD Unix box is the best way to go, largely because BSD is well understood by the people in Prague that provide e-mail connections. However, I think it would be best if the decidedly non-technical users this system is for would not have to use two different systems, Unix and Novell. Thus I want to port the e-mail to the Novell server for distribution to Novell accounts. This I am told can be done with an NLM for Novell called Mercury, or a dedicated PC running something called Charon. My questions are: Is there extra Unix software necessary to receive the mail by modem, or to send it to the gateway (or does the gateway just know how to grab it by itself?) Does BSD Unix do TCP/IP? Are extras required? I understand not all ethernet 10 Base T cards are compatible with BSD Unix, and the best bet is to stick with a Novell 2000-compatible card. Right? I understand I need a serial port with a 16550 UART to run 14.4 modems on Unix. If it is an internal modem, does this need to be built in to the modem? Is this normally done with 14.4 internal modems? If the only thing this Unix box is going to do is act as a weighing station for e-mail, how much memory/hard drive space is enough? How about 4 and 80? Replies by e-mail to twarner@u.washington.edu would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom.