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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1 align="center"><A NAME="answer">
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<a href="./index.html">The Answer Guy</a>
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">Getting at MS-Mail from within Linux</H3>
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<h4 align="center">The Myriad Ways to Co-exist with MS Windows</h4>
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<p><strong>From Aubrey Pic on 28 Apr 1998
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I connect my linux box, at work, to a Netware network. I, also, have
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Win95 on my box, ONLY to get my LAN mail. Is there any way (or is there
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a commercial pkg availible) to get my MS-MAIL messages w/out resorting
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to Win???? I have <tt>ncpfs</tt> running, so I can login & access my
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Netware account/directory, with no problems. I cringe every time I have
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to do this.
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<br><br>
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Aubrey Pic
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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I really feel for you there. There are five
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techniques that come to mind:
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<li>Get an extra cheap box to run Win '95 on.
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Put the two boxes on a KVM (keyboard, video,
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mouse) switch box.
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<br><br>
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A bit expensive by some accounts -- but much
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less than the time you waste rebooted if you
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amoritize it over a year or two.
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<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/prodref/599_ov.htm"
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>MS-Exchange</a> i
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(presumably the mail server that your site is using)
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/prodref/599_faq.htm#5360"
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>can be configured to serve e-mail over POP</a>.
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Essentially your postmaster would set you up with an account
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that had a local address but was routed <strong>as though</strong> it
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were to the Internet. You'd just use '<tt>fetchmail</tt>'
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to grab your mail.
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<br><br>
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This is probably the easiest and cheapest.
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However I've never administered an Exchange
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system --- so I have no idea how difficult this
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is or what sort of glitches you'll run into
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(particularly with various "rich text" embellishments
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that MS-Mail supports and that your associates
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might therefore use on mail that they consider to
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be "internal."
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<hr width="10%">
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<li>Install an emulator such as
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<a href="http://world.std.com/~bochs/">Bochs</a>,
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<a href="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</a>,
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<a href="http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/wabi/resources.html">Wabi</a>
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or
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<a href="http://www.suse.com/dosemu/">DOSEmu</a>
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(which allegedly can run Windows 3.x in standard mode).
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<br><br>
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This is probably the most difficult approach
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(Wabi isn't too bad -- but it's only 3.x, too)
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The nice thing is hack value, you show your associates
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that Linux can run Windows apps.
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<br><br>
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Bochs might be the most impressive, though undoubtedly
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the slowest. It can apparently run Win '95 under
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its emulation of a whole system (processor, chipset,
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video register set, disk controllers the works -- all
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virtual).
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<br><table width="85%" border="0"><tr align="left">
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<td><ul><li><a href="http://std.world.com/~bochs"
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i >http://std.world.com/~bochs</a>
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</ul></td>
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<td>(shareware in source form $25)</td>
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</tr><tr align="left">
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<td><ul><li><a href="http://www.winehq.com/"
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>http://www.winehq.com/</a>
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</ul></td>
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<td>(free)</td>
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</tr><tr align="left">
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<td><ul><li><a href="http://www.suse.com/~dosemu/"
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>http://www.suse.com/~dosemu/</a>
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</ul></td>
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<td>(free)</td>
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</tr><tr align="left">
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<td><ul><li><a href="http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/roadmap.html#wabi"
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>http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/roadmap.html#wabi</a>
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</ul></td>
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<td>(commercial ~$100 - 200)</td>
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</tr></table>
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<hr width="10%">
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<li>Get a G3 PowerMac and run
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<a href="http://www.connectix.com/">Connectix</a>
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<a href="http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html"
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>Virtual PC</a> under MacOS.
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(<a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple</a> has a
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<a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1998/may/1promo.html"
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>special offer</a> to include it free, until June 26.)
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<br><br>
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Well, this is the most expensive and it does sell
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another copy of Win '95 for Microsoft. But that G3
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is <strong>fast</strong> and should make a great platform for
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<a href="http://www.mklinux.apple.com/">mkLinux</a> and/or
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<a href="http://www.linuxppc.org/">LinuxPPC</a> in the
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next year or so.
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<hr width="10%">
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<li>Run a copy of
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<a href="http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/">VNC</a>
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--- with the server on some associate's system and the client
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on your Linux box. You won't get to read your mail concurrently
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with them. Or get a
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<a href="http://www.citrix.com/">Citrix</a>
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<a href="http://www.citrix.com/products/workgroups.asp"
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>WinFrame</a> server (runs over NT 3.51) and the Java
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<a href="http://www.citrix.com/free.asp">"ICA"
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client</a> so you can remotely run NT apps from your
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X desktop.
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</ol>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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