Subject: dos based email prog

From: [email-masked] (Toby A.O. Holmes)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:22:44 -0400

Found you on the web somewhere

Any idea where I can get a DOS based email programme? I use Eudora on one
computer with Windows, but I have a secretary using a 286 (yes, really)
without Windows and I want her to be able to access email

Thanks for your help

Toby A.O. Holmes
Cooper Island Beach Club, British Virgin Islands
http://www.cooper-island.com
Email:- [email-masked]
800-542-4624
413-863-3162

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From: Doug Piercy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:29:13 -0700

> Email:- [email-masked]

I believe Pegasus Mail has a DOS version available, but I doubt if it
works with Internet based mail. It works with LAN based email, like MHS.

DOS-based Internet access is difficult at best to set up, because there
is no standard method for programs to access TCP/IP, such as WINSOCK for
Windows.

If you want your secretary to be able to access an Internet email
account from DOS, the easiest way is to dial directly into the
provider's system (assuming your provider allows dial-in telnet access
instead of just SLIP or PPP, which you are using) using a program like
ProComm. Then, once you are logged in, you can run 'pine' to read & send
email.  You can do this with a simple 2400 baud modem (or even, god
forbid, a 300 baud).  Of course, the mail is never *downloaded* to your
secretary's PC as it is with Eudora. Instead, it stays on the provider's
system.