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At my place of work, we are presently trying to decide which Email
package to use in an enterprise-wide capacity.  We are presently
installing a communications backbone which will support a large (100s of
nodes) Novell-based LAN.  In the future, we hope to add an Internet
gateway to the local university, so that all of our users may have mail
access to the Internet (this will no doubt involve adding an Internet
host of some kind -- we need something with an IP address, and to route
mail, and to resolve addresses?).

The scenario is this:

       Internet
          .
          .
          |
      ----+----
      |  ???  |
      ----+----
          |
         /|\
       /| | |\
     .  . . .  \
   .    . . .    \
   (users on LAN)


The email packages we are looking at are CC:mail, MS mail, and Beyond
Mail.

I know that I have given a rather vague picture of our eventual
configuration.  The important piece is that we need to have mail for
user A, coming in off the Internet in an Internet format, translated to
whatever message standard our LAN mail package uses, and filed with the
user's mail agent (probably an NLM running on a Novell file server?).  I
think that the three mail packages mentioned above purport to do that,
but we are unable to verify this at the present time.

My question then, is:

   * Have you had experience using a LAN-based mail package coupled with
     an Internet connectivity requirement?  (ie. Are you presently
     operating a setup similar to the one shown above, and with which
     products, and with how much success?)

Any and all answers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

...Steve van der Burg
koops@gaul.csd.uwo.ca

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