F. ELECTRONIC MAIL

F.1 Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail is a free mail program written by David Harris. It has almost every feature you could wish for in a mail program, and is well supported. Pegasus supports MHS and runs on NetWare 3.x and 4.x. DOS, Windows and Mac versions are available at:

> http://www.pegasus.usa.com

If you also need an Internet e-mail gateway get Charon or Mercury (same directory--see questions F.2 and F.3 for details) you will be able to setup a Novell/Internet gateway.

F.2 Setting up an Internet gateway for Pegasus Mail -- Charon

Charon is a bi-directional Novell print queue to Unix LPD gateway and Internet/Novell mail gateway program. The mail gateway section works in conjunction with Pegasus Mail. Charon is free. It requires a dedicated workstation to run on; if you use the mail gateway you require an SMTP mail server as a mailing agent.

Charon is available on many ftp sites, including:

> ftp://info.umd.edu/Software/Novell/Email/charon40a.zip

> *128.8.10.29*

Note: Charon is no longer under development.

F.3 Another Internet gateway for Pegasus Mail -- Mercury

Mercury is an Internet/Novell mail gateway program that is designed to work in conjunction with Pegasus Mail (in fact its also written by David Harris). A major difference from Charon is that Mercury is a set of 3 NLMs and so runs on a file server. Mercury requires that your file server handle TCP/IP and can only serve one file server (whereas Charon can route mail to up to 8 file servers). Like Charon, Mercury needs an SMTP mail server (such as a Unix system) to handle outgoing mail. Mercury runs on NetWare 4.x in bindery emulation mode and is available at:

> http://www.pegasus.usa.com

F.3.1 Pegasus/Mercury plus NetWare 4.1 considerations

With v4.1, Mercury/Pegasus no longer supports the print queue method of passing email back and forth. Instead, they use only the SPOOL directory method. However, many installations migrated from CHARON, which supports only print queues, to Mercury. Since most of us have a bias in favor of doing what worked in the past, a Mercury/Pegasus reconfiguration is a common NetWare v3.1x to v4.1 prerequisite.

[Thx D.E.H.]

After upgrading from 3.x to 4.1, and assuming you're running Bindery Emulation (for the benefit of Mercury), you'll have to run Pegasus' PCONFIG to set all the info again. Only the new PCONFIG that comes with the WinPmail 2.4x has stuff for working directly with NDS.

If you're using the "older" PCONFIG (like many of us), then run "PCONFIG /B" to correctly set the Bindery Emulation stuff under 4.1.

[Thanks to Theodore Hope for this info]

F.4 Other electronic mail packages

There are a variety of commercial e-mail packages on the market, including Microsoft Mail and CC:Mail. These can be connected to an Internet gateway (like Pegasus Mail). However, these packages use their own gateway systems, available from the suppliers of the e-mail packages.

F.5 Eudora

Eudora started as freeware, but now there are freeware and commercial versions. There are DOS, Windows and Mac versions, with the latest free "lite" version is available at:

> http://eudora.qualcomm.com/

F.6 DNS and smart mailer

Charon and Mercury are SMTP gateways and provide no DNS or Sendmail capabilties. To obtain a smart mailer (ie. sendmail/smail/mmdf) with DNS for the NetWare platform, try:

> http://www.unoverica.com/

[Thanks to Eric Harold for this info]