On 10/7/20 8:03 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote:
Am wondering about the possibility of setting up an interface between modern Unix email and the embedded client for cc:Mail on the HP 200LX.
Translation / regurgitation: You're wondering about the possibility of connecting a cc:Mail Post Office to the Internet email (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) ecosystem somehow. Is that correct?
Various versions of cc:Mail are available from archive.org and vetusware.com, but the missing link seems to be the "client" type connection from the cc:Mail post office to the internet, i.e. for the PO machine to connect periodically and collect mail, rather than just acting as a server.
I don't know that I've ever seen, or realized, that there was a utility that would retrieve email from a provider via POP3 / IMAP and inject it into cc:Mail. But my ignorance thereof does not preclude it's existence.
I have seen such utilities that re-inject email into a local SMTP based solution. "fetchmail" is one such example. I also believe that some versions of Microsoft Exchange have this capability built in.
Have not been able to find much technical information about cc:Mail. I did see a Lotus development kit for sale somwhere but seems to have lost the link. Does anybody here know anything about this? Are there any books or technical documents on cc:Mail available anywhere?
I'll take a look in my pile of Lotus disks. (I have an unhealthy interest in old networking / email / collaboration technologies.)
I think that I have a few different /Lotus/ things that interface with cc:Mail. I also think that I have some non-Lotus things that will also interface with cc:Mail; e.g. Microsoft Exchange and / or Novell GroupWise. I expect that amongst the various plastic coasters that I have, possibly combined with other utilities, there is a way to get Internet email into and out of your Unix cc:Mail client.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
