From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 20:55:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA17821 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreaming.org (lucid.dreaming.org [204.92.7.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17812 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mitayai@localhost) by nightmare.dreaming.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22503; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:52:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nightmare.dreaming.org: mitayai owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:51:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Microfoft Exchange -> UNIX (FreeBSD-2.1.5) In-Reply-To: <199610201602.SAA13249@freebie.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe writes: > > > > hello! > > > > I was wondering if there was a way to get MS Exchange to use a UNIX box as the mail host. Is there a built-in way for MS Mail to query a UNIX box with Microsoft Networks? I use the Samba server on my FreeBSD-2.1.5 UNIX firewall/gateway for everything else like file and print sharing, if that helps any. As an alternative, is there a freeware/public domain/shareware/cheap SMTP client for Windows 95? I could use a POP mail program, i know, but for long-winded reasons the former best suits my needs. > > > > If there is anything at all you can mention, even docs to look at, i'd much appreciate it. > > Sorry, I don't know. The reason I'm replying to this message is to > suggest that you avoid using mailers that mail in non-standard > formats. I see this message was written with Microsoft Exchange (how > did you get it to the real world?), and your first paragraph came out > as a single line with 500 characters. This happens very frequently > with Microsoft mailers, and like badly transmitted faxes, it makes the > sender look stupid without him necessarily recognizing the fact. > > This may be a configuration problem, but as I said, it happens often > enough. These problems don't seem to happen with UNIX mailers. > > Greg > > *laugh* I used /bin/mail, actually, 'cause i was mailing from a fresh UNIX install and hadn't gotten around to installing Pine yet. :) -Mit