Python interface to Groupwise mailoxes?

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Wed Sep 8 10:21:39 EDT 1999


When I checked into delivering content through to a GroupWise mailbox, I
found out the easiest way was to bounce it off the net through the
user at company.com internet mail address.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa <warren at nightwares.com> wrote in message
news:37D5B211.E9C7C9F3 at nightwares.com...
> "S. Blakey" wrote:
>
> > Even some good documentation of Novell's proprietary crap would
> > appreciated.
>
> That's the problem. Novell's way of doing things is, well, Novell's.
> I've tried to hack into my GroupWise box at work using non-Novell
tools,
> in non-MS IDEs, and had nothing but grief.
>
> However note that Novell *does* market a POP server which *in theory*
> makes their G'Wise mailboxen available to any POP3 client. It's spendy
> -- about US$1300 for a 50-seat license as I recall -- but it opens the
> gateway, so to speak, and in large companies or companies with many
> users on many OSen or many users travelling amortizes well.
>
> I am still pushing hard at work for that implementation, as the
current
> scheme is intolerable (G'Wise client hoses NT4's networking,
surprise.)
>
> Don't know if they have a gateway for SMTP for sending stuff. Sigh.
> Their site used to have lots of info like that available, but recently
> they seem to have buried the relevant docs under a lot of noise, so
it's
> darn near impossible to find even the POP server, which in fact they
> released under the aegis of being something like "Netscape mail server
> for Novell", when you search their site. I found the POP server before
> AOL sucked up Mozilla though, and that might be a factor too.
>
> Short answer: If anyone has figured out Novell's server scheme for
mail
> I'd sure love to know about it, but I fear it has not been done yet.
(Or
> did I see a Red Hat install go by a while back which included a G'Wise
> client?)
>
> --
>     warren ockrassa | nightwares | mailto:warren at nightwares.com
>                     http://www.nightwares.com/






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