PM Mail/2 under a Novel/Pegasus system

[Steve Wendt]

On Thu, 18 May 2000 15:51:50 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>>mail in my SMTP/Incoming path. I could not determine how to get PMMail/2 to 
>>use this Novel/Pegasus setup to send mail. Luckily, I can send my mail through 
>>a SMTP server, but I was told that I can not depend on the continued 

Sending through an SMTP server is indeed what you must do.

>But when you send (internal) mail using pmmail, how does it get to 
>other pmail/netware users - there must be a gateway somewhere 
>(unless you simply cannot send mail to internal pmail users)?

Right, he can't send internal mail, it has to go via SMTP.
FWIW, the 16-bit version of Pegasus works fine in WinOS2.

>We used to run an old 286 running some free DOS software called "the charon
>gateway" (AFAIR) - this bridged between the proprietry novel/pmail mail
>system and the smtp/pop standards based tcp/ip world.  [Incidently this 

The author of Pegasus has made a replacement for Charon called Mercury.  
There are versions for both Netware and Lose32, and it provides full POP and 
SMTP (client, not server) daemons.

>since open standards and ip is the future and netware is the past!

Netware now uses IP, XFree86, etc.  :)


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