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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!wizard.pn.com!news1.channel1.com!arthur From: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hooking FBSD2+ machine to a DOS network Date: 6 Jul 1995 03:50:14 GMT Organization: B.E.T.A. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3tfmhm$435@news1.channel1.com> References: <3t4cib$64@uuneo.neosoft.com> <804645155.18948@imp.demon.co.uk> <andrewgDB2Mru.3EM@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arthur.beta.com To: andrewg@netcom.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 In article <andrewgDB2Mru.3EM@netcom.com>, andrewg@netcom.com (Andrew Ghali) wrote: >Thanx for the 3 choices - I'll try one or more next week! > >Now for the natural followup question: How about PC (DOS and/or Windoze) >based SMTP clients? I know that I'm asking for trouble here, but my boss >at work wants this now that I've talked him into setting up a dedicated >FreeBSD machine at work (based on my experience at home on a stand alone >machine, which means I haven't even wet my feet on network administration). > >Thanx for any insight you can direct my way. > >Andrew > Check out PC-Eudora. Its shareware, but once you have a POP3 server running on the BSD box, Eudora makes a great windows client. Also, if NFS isn't needed in your case, one other thing you may want to do is try out Trumpet Winsock for your TCP/IP layer. It only works in Windows, but it works. -Brian