On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:55:23 +0200, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > 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?
Well, in theory it could possibly be directly between 200LX and Internet, without any PO, but realistically: yes. It's been a while now, but one cc:Mail PO version I tried had an SMTP add-on for sending mail, and also, I believe, POP/IMAP for dial-up, i.e. acting as a server using those protocols. What I believe I am looking for is a POP/IMAP client side, to run on/with the cc:Mail PO, getting mails from Internet to cc:Mail. > 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. Right. But there were bridges, apparently, so they must have done it? > 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. Sounds good. On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:58:32 +0200, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 10/7/20 8:45 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: > > the cc:Mail PO would need to periodically (ie constantly) check for > > new mail from the provider, and collect it. > > /Something/ needs to periodically check for new mail from the > provider. I don't think that it needs to necessarily be the cc:Mail > PO. No, it can be separate. > Something like fetchmail can periodically poll and collect email. So getting the mail from fetchmail into cc:Mail should be possible with the Lotus dev stuff? > You can probably also configure an SMTP gateway and use regular mail > routing (possibly via forwarding) to push email into the system. If by system you mean cc:Mail then I do not really see how this works. /Tomas
