Re: [WinMac] Setting Internal Mail Server for Macs/Win95 machines

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:40:02 -0400

At 06:10 PM 8/26/98 -0400, Dan Goldblatt wrote:
>I have a Mac shop with a new batch Windows Laptops for the ad people
>upstairs. We are all on an ethernet network and have a Windows NT 4.0
>server for the Win boxes and an Appleshare 4.something for the Macs.

>1. Is there some function built into NT that will be the equivelent of
>ASIP's mail server--we've already bought NT, so it would be nice not to
>have to buy ASIP, too. Also, our creaky copy of Appleshare 4.2.1 is
>otherwise satisfactory.

NT doesn't bundle a mail server, that would hurt M$ Exchange sales. IIS 4.0
includes an SMTP server but that only helps with the sending, not receiving.

There are a number of shareware/trial version mail servers for NT, here's a
link to a list of some: <http://www.winfiles.com/apps/nt/servers-mail.html>

>2. To get around having to buy everyone new e-mail clients that allow
>multiple accounts, should I be thinking about having all our Internet
>email forwarded to a mail server within the shop so just accessing one
>email account gets the internal messages and external messages? I like
>the idea of having our internal email messages going through an in-house
>computer instead of having to shoot around the planet and be held up at
>our ISP.

Yes, that's probably a good idea. OTOH, it's pretty easy to set up Eudora
Light (free, Mac & Win) to access multiple email accounts from a single
computer. On the Mac you just have to quit and start up using a different
settings file/mailbox set. On Windows you have shortcuts pointing to not
just the program but also the directory with the settings/mailbox set.

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Curtis Wilcox     cwcx@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Desktop Systems Consultant       716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290


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