Re: [NTLK] Using NewtonMail software for modern electronic mail (seriously!)

Interesting. But can you imagine the phone bill? Can't I just get a NewtonScript hacker and pay him $30 to hack the NewtonMail software to accept mail from modern POP3 and such servers?

M. Horvat

--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Using NewtonMail software for modern electronic mail (seriously!)
> To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:30 AM
> Depending on your skills and interests you could set up your
> own
> server at home, Connect a modem to it and the modem to a
> phone line,
> and you can have your own dial in server for your newton
> (and other
> mobile devices).
> Using Linux or any other free Operating System would allow
> you to set
> up mail in a way that the newton can deal with it. The mail
> system
> could just be an smart host, relaying all mail to the
> "real" mail
> server you're using,
> No need for SSL in this case, because SLIP/PPP already
> handles
> authentication.
> Nice plus: Set up telnet on your server and you can use a
> variety of
> text based browsers (w3m, lynx, links) for your web surfing
> needs. I'd
> recommend using "links" as web browser.
> Additionally, there is a program called
> "Netatalk", offering Appletalk
> services on Unix servers. Well, you might not want to use
> it over an
> newton modem powered dial up line.

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