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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
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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