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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail Gateway Date: 29 Jul 1996 01:00:51 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 56 Message-ID: <4th2g3$b2o@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <31FAB291.167EB0E7@eramp.net> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <31FAB291.167EB0E7@eramp.net>, syntax <syntax@eramp.net> writes: >Hiya, > >I'm looking for a little advice and hope someone can help. >At work we are running both SGI Irix 5.3 and 6.2 which run sendmail >with SMTP and Novel servers with microsoft mail to our pc's running >3.11. > >We are getting a T-1 in fairly soon so I will have to set-up a mail >gateway that will interface these 2 different systems. > >Can FreeBSD do this and if so what software should I be looking at? >I just love FreeBSD and would love to be able to slowly migrate it into >my work. I hope this is my opportunity. > >Any suggestions or notes saying you have done it and what I need to >look at would be greatly appreciated. > Well you will have some fun!!! :-) There are only 3 ways that I know of to get mail from SMTP to Microsoft Mail that are going to have a snowballs chance of working. 1) Buy the Microsoft Mail to SMTP Mail gateway. This is a DOS program that you run ontop of Novell's LanWorkplace for DOS and it talks to a Unix host that actually deals with the mail. Basically, you set a Unix box up to talk to the Internet, and forward mail from that box to the SMTP gateway. The gateway passes outbound mail to the Unix system. The gateway is flat out stupid, it cannot look up hosts, it can only send to a predefined smart host. It also crashes about once a day. What you do is you buy one of those lamp timers at the hardware store and put it on the power plug of the PC running the gateway and cycle power once a day to the machine. Lest you laugh, be it known that this is the most _reliable_ way! ;-) 2) A company called IMC makes an aftermarket SMTP to MSMail gateway that is supposed to be stronger, and not require the Unix box. (yeah, right) The big benefit is that this supports MIME, the MS-supplied gateway only does UUENCODE. 3) You buy Microsoft Exchange server, of course if you do this you cannot support Win31 clients because the exchange server only supports the exchange in Win95 and in the upcoming NT Beta. If you have any say in the matter, you will thank your lucky stars in the future if you can use this as an opportunity to get rid of Microsoft Mail and replace it with POP3 mail. (Eudora, etc) The Exchange client in WIn95 supports POP3 with the appropriate add-in from Microsoft, so the Win95 people won't even know the difference. The Exchange client also will convert between attachment files and MIME. For the cost of the SMTP gateway you could probably do the conversion. I'm doing a series on mail you might want to read at www.computerbits.com in my Network Community column. Ted