Subject: Re: Dialup access for PC-Pine

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 09:26:11 +0100 (BST)

Can I recommend the strategy employed by (Mac) Eudora which is more-or-less
protocol independent for the micro concerned? 

Steve Dorner allows the Mac user to define a login script to dial-up,
navigate through any data switches and login (apparently as a "live"
asynch caller) to an IP host. The script (or a suitable shell provided on
the host - e.g. serialpop - source on ftp.qualcomm.com:) then says
		telnet mail.host.name 110/stream   (to collect mail via pop)
then says	telnet mail.host.name 25/stream	(to dispatch any outbound mail)
then says	exit 	
and (if logout doesn't drop the connection) a second script handles the
disconnect.

I spent a lot of time struggling with SLIP and failed to get reliable
dial-up connections with POPmail. Using Eudora as described has proved
totally reliable and can work anywhere which has dialup access to any kind
of host able to telnet the POP/SMTP host. So why not the IMAP host? 

Besides we don't offer SLIP or PPP access, but we do want PC-Pine. The PC's
concerned contact our Unix hosts by several (distinctly British) techniques!

Mike

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