On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:36:28 +0000 Paul Tansom <p...@aptanet.com> wrote:
> I can't for the life of me think whether it was pre-SMTP being > de-facto, but I do remember the fun of setting up special addresses > on the IBM gateway at work to route internet addressed email into my > IBM Profs/Office Vision account. This was all doubly interesting when > combined with the requirement to do a similar process to get email > out of IBM through one gateway and then into Hampshire County Council > via their gateway. An interesting challenge in sending mails with > specially calculated addresses to get things set up and then using > another address to email through once it was, but it worked. Of > course this was all done so I could send email from my work to my mum > at work, as well as for the challenge of whether I could set it up ;) > That said, once I had it was used for legitimate work purposes, so it > was purely in the spirit of testing :) A problem I never did solve before I retired was how to get a dial-up modem on a PC in my office to talk to a dial-up modem in a PC in another town so we could transfer files between the two PCs. The software I was using (a WordPerfect product) was supposed to allow this but I couldn't get it to work and I eventually ran out of time. -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
