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It sounds like you're looking for a way to give everyone on your LAN access
to Internet e-mail without Microsoft Exchange Server and without putting in
a phone line/modem at every desk.  If so, look here for some ideas:
http://www.slipstick.com/exchange/client2.htm#internetother.

Hal
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David Hall wrote in message
<789dgq$nt9$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
>Please help me!
>
>I have a 3 PC network set up where:
>    Alpha is a 486 with a modem
>    Beta is a pentium 120
>    Gamma is a pentium 133 laptop
>
>All the PCs have win95, MSFax, MSMail, Internet Mail, Outlook Express and
>IE4 installed.
>
>The network setup is pretty much OK: sharing works for all drives and
>printers; we can send internal messages from any  PC to any other; any PC
>can send a fax via the modem.  Aplha can acess news and the internet - the
>others can't but this is a secondary problem (though a fix would be a
>bonus!).
>
>The major problem is that Alpha (the PC with the modem) is the only PC
which
>can send email.  Trying to send email from Beta or Gamma gets a message
>something like:
>
>    "unable to acess/logon server"
>
>then prompted to enter server name
>
>On Alpha the server is ozemail.blah.blah, but what should I put here for
the
>other two PCs?  I have tried the ozemail adress, the postoffice address of
>Alpha, the path to the postoffice, and any other related terms or words I
>can think of - nothing is acceptable!
>
>As a band-aid fix, could we get stuff automatically moved from a shared
>folder to Aplha's outbox and then sent?  I can put stuff in a shared
folder,
>then go to Alpha and drag it into outbox, but this is a pain!  Even if this
>worked it wouldn't be ideal.
>
>Any help or advice greatly appreciated - please reply to:
>
>    NOJUNKalbhall@ozemail.com.au    (remove the NOJUNK :) )
>
>Thanks!
>
>(P.S. - Tried to post this earlier but it didn't seem to go through -
>apologies if I just posted twice!)
>
>

In article <789dgq$nt9$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>, David Hall
<albhall@ozemail.com.au> writes
>Please help me!
>
>I have a 3 PC network set up where:
>    Alpha is a 486 with a modem
>    Beta is a pentium 120
>    Gamma is a pentium 133 laptop
>
>All the PCs have win95, MSFax, MSMail, Internet Mail, Outlook Express and
>IE4 installed.
[...]
>The major problem is that Alpha (the PC with the modem) is the only PC which
>can send email.  Trying to send email from Beta or Gamma gets a message
>something like:
>
>    "unable to acess/logon server"
>
>then prompted to enter server name
[...]

This may not suit your particular circumstances, but my parents run a
small LAN for their business, which I recently configured when they
upgraded their IT kit.

The solution we chose was to avoid MS software for their email
facilities, as it tends to be bloated, expensive, and a pain to
configure, and to go for a third party mail server on one of the
machines, and Pegasus as a mail client (we used a UK produced product
called FTGate for the mail server, as it is cheap and reasonably priced.
I don't have the URL to hand, I'm afraid, but it is available as a
download via http://softseek.com, IIRC).

The server is configured to route email to and from a dial-up ISP
account as and when required, and similarly for the Pegasus clients.
It's been in use for a couple of months now, with no serious headaches.

HTH

Regards, Colin.

-- 
  "How can you take anyone with a name like 'Gates' seriously?"
   My mother (referring to an actor in Star Trek)

I had a similar need. What I did was install NAT32 on my 'Alpha' to give
everybody access to the Internet then set up Outlook Express on each PC,
pointing all the installation directories to the same network share on
'Alpha' so messages downloaded from any client showed up on all.

Randy Richards

David Hall wrote in message
<789dgq$nt9$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
>Please help me!
>
>I have a 3 PC network set up where:
>    Alpha is a 486 with a modem
>    Beta is a pentium 120
>    Gamma is a pentium 133 laptop
>
>All the PCs have win95, MSFax, MSMail, Internet Mail, Outlook Express and
>IE4 installed.
>
>The network setup is pretty much OK: sharing works for all drives and
>printers; we can send internal messages from any  PC to any other; any PC
>can send a fax via the modem.  Aplha can acess news and the internet - the
>others can't but this is a secondary problem (though a fix would be a
>bonus!).
>
>The major problem is that Alpha (the PC with the modem) is the only PC
which
>can send email.  Trying to send email from Beta or Gamma gets a message
>something like:
>
>    "unable to acess/logon server"
>
>then prompted to enter server name
>
>On Alpha the server is ozemail.blah.blah, but what should I put here for
the
>other two PCs?  I have tried the ozemail adress, the postoffice address of
>Alpha, the path to the postoffice, and any other related terms or words I
>can think of - nothing is acceptable!
>
>As a band-aid fix, could we get stuff automatically moved from a shared
>folder to Aplha's outbox and then sent?  I can put stuff in a shared
folder,
>then go to Alpha and drag it into outbox, but this is a pain!  Even if this
>worked it wouldn't be ideal.
>
>Any help or advice greatly appreciated - please reply to:
>
>    NOJUNKalbhall@ozemail.com.au    (remove the NOJUNK :) )
>
>Thanks!
>
>(P.S. - Tried to post this earlier but it didn't seem to go through -
>apologies if I just posted twice!)
>
>