About the only SMTP/POP mail transport agent I ever heard of that runs
in DOS is UKA_PPP. When I took a look at it, I was appalled to notice it
fits most definitions of bloatware: ove 1 Meg compressed, with perhaps
50 different files and scripts uncompressed.
I then noticed an alternative that seems to work quite well and thought
I would pass the program's name on to the masses: Smtpop12 (which you can
get from the Simtel archive) is a relatively small, seemingly stable and
quite fast program that runs in DOS, receives mail using the POP3 protocol
and sends it off to your mail server using the standard SMTP protocol.
It also has a handy little data-base feature, at one time, must desired in
the Yarn offline mailer circles: It can store information about a large
number of different mail accounts on different servers, for different users,
even with different ISP's -- and then send/receive mail to/from all of them
at once, one at a time, or in user selected combinations.
The author recommends Tony Lopez's dosppp package to handle dialing the
servers and the packet driver TCP/IP chores. The package works well with
SMTPOP12. Together, one has 2 programs and about 4 setup files that
, at least for mail, performs the same functions as UKA_PPP.
The only catch is that smtpop12 expects the mail headers that it sends out
to be in Pegasus ``glue header'' format, one file per message. However, I
did not find it hard to, for instance, write a little awk script to convert
a single file with a bunch of SOUP mail messages, to multiple files, each
containing a Pegasus type message.
Id be glad to provide/discuss details for anyone who finds this program
useful.
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