I believe a product like Internet Mail Bridge performs that function.
Take a look : http://www.virtualmotion.com/products/mailbridge.htm
Mike Ventimiglia
Ultracom Internet Technologies
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 6:20 PM
Cc: Qmail
Subject: Re: methods for ETRN
On 26 Oct 1999, Chris Shenton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:32:57 GMT, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Sam> If you have part time connectivity, use any kind of a part time
> Sam> mail transfer protocol, such as POP3, IMAP, or UUCP.
>
> This is impractical for many sites where 24x7 connectivity is
> prohibitively expensive, and where the organization is UNIX-clueless
> (e.g. a MicroSoft shop).
I would be very much surprised if there's absolutely no software in the
Win32 world that can download remote mail via any standard protocol, and
dump it into an MSexchange.
Perhaps MSexchange does not provide the correct solution for those sites'
situation, but I do not believe that the right way to solve it is to
pervert the SMTP.
Perhaps there is no solution available from Microsoft, but that does not
mean that there's no solution available at all.
At the very least, there is a port of Perl to Win32, and it would be
rather trivial to write a POP3 client in Perl. In fact, I'd bet that if I
look I'll find both a Perl POP3 module and a Perl SMTP module, so it would
be a rather trivial excersize to use both to download mail via POP3, and
dump into into MSexchange via SMTP.
--
Sam
