>Someone suggested Baton Mail but I understood Classic apps >cant establish a OSX dial up connection so this i s no good to me. > >What I am investigating is like a UNIX version of something similar. >Email would talk locally to it, and it would do the dial up and send/get. >I need to take my iMac into my ISP and get him to show me how, then >I can share the knowledge around.
I'm a little confused. Are you talking about giving Emailer SMTP Authentication abilities, or just the ability to work under OS X. What specifically are the issue's you feel need to be addressed with Emailer under OS X? I use Emailer under OS X right now, and I have ZERO issue with it. Everything works exactly as it does on my OS 9 and earlier machines. The only things I am aware of that are lost with Emailer under OS X is it can no longer talk directly to the modem (so it can't dial AOL or CompuServe directly, but works fine with dialup ISP connections because it tells OS X to make the connection), and you can't drag an attachment from the message window directly to the trash (you have to take a stop over at the desktop or somewhere else first). There are no issues in using anything else with Emailer in OS X that I am aware of. If you are talking about giving Emailer authentication abilities, Baton Mail works under OS X (classic), so that is an option... or you can run a local mail host of your own. Since SendMail comes as part of OS X's unix core, if you want to go thru the effort of configuring it, you can set it to do pretty much the same thing as Baton Mail (a bit more powerful, as you are really running a SMTP server on your machine, which your mail client talks to, and then it talks out to all other mail servers). I'm not a SendMail user, so I don't know if it can be set to route to a single mail server and use Authentication. If it can great, if it can't, then if you are on Dialup, you run the risk of being blacklisted from some mail servers (some won't take a connection from a dialup IP). There may also be something more directly like Baton Mail on Unix (at the time that I created Baton Mail, there were no other products like it that I could find, but *nix is a very big world, so I might have over looked something, or someone else might have created something like it in the last year) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
