Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>About the only SMTP/POP mail transport agent I ever heard of that runs
>in DOS is UKA_PPP.
I think there are several others: netmail, umteen versions of
Ka9q, even Arachne.
>When I took a look at it, I was appalled to notice it
>fits most definitions of bloatware: over 1 Meg compressed, with perhaps
>50 different files and scripts uncompressed.
However, this includes a dialer, packet drivers (epppdd.exe,
c/slipper), smtp, pop, nntp, spooler to create/unpack SOUP
packets, htget, a version of Ka9q NOS, and various scripts
and utilities for setting up and running these and other
TCP/IP applications.
And if you've seen the author's comtool program, which is
under 4K, I think it would be hard to accuse him of writing
"bloatware". (It still comes with Arachne). I use pc_pine
occasionally for IMAP. The executable itself (pine.exe) is
over 1M and it uses up almost all of conventional memory.
Now that's bloatware!
Anyway, as far as UKA_PPP is concerned, once you've loaded
a packet driver and configured wattcp.cfg, for SMTP all you
need is tcpport.exe (35K) and x_mail.exe (60K). Likewise for
POP all you need is tcpport and x_pop.exe (65K). If you know
what you're doing you can use them without the scripts.
>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.
A fine program, but it only does mail. UKA_PPP can also do NNTP
(fetch/post) using tcpport and x_news.exe (90K).
[Aside: I use tcpport and conex (terminal program) to do Zmodem
over telnet.]
>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.
I believe that SMTPOP12 is actually recommended for use with
DOS Pegasus. In this case there is no catch.
>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.
Without trying to belittle your efforts, if you look at the
UKA_PPP package you'll see that x_spool.exe (50K) can be used to
create/unpack SOUP packets for use with Yarn for both mail and
news.
>Id be glad to provide/discuss details for anyone who finds this program
>useful.
While I'm happy using UKA_PPP, it might be useful to have a
set of scripts to convert the various e-mail formats so that
they can be used with different programs.
Howard E.
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