Re: SLIP & Mail server

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 98 06:19:44 -0500
> From: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostain@crecomp.com>
> To: "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
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> Subject: SLIP & Mail server

> 
> OK.  I've got my SLIP dialup working.  I can TELNET into my 400 from
> other PC's, Web, everything.
> 
> I'd like the AS/400 to go to my ISP and download my email to it's POP3
> server, then I'll use Eudora to view/send/etc. from AS/400.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> In another application, I have a customer who manually dials internet
> with a PC, gets an email from his customer with file attached, then
> transfers it up to AS/400.  I'd like 400 to go to internet, get email,
> then hangup.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Art Tostaine, Jr.
> Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
> Parlin, NJ 08859
> 
> 

Hello Art,

The AS/400 can do this.  I've not configured it personally but I know it works. 
 The usual 
problem is that ISPs regard SLIP as unsecure and so require PPP.  PPP is 
provided with V4R2 of 
OS/400. So you'll need to upgrade or use a PC to provide the PPP connection.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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