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This article is from the Apple II GNO FAQ, by Devin Reade with numerous contributions by others.

8.12: Is there a mail/news package available for GNO?

    A#8.12:	There is a rudimentary one called MuGS by Brian Tao.  It requires
a shell account (presumably on a UNIX box) for part of the
software.  The base MuGS package handles news articles that
are spooled on the UNIX machine's local disk.  There is an NNTP
(Net News Transfer Protocol) patch by Devin Reade that allows
MuGS to work with an NNTP server.  MuGS is available as described
in its describe(1) entry (see Q#4.4).

Because of a lack of TCP/IP there is no software for GNO v2.0.4
that allows a IIgs to connect to the 'net via NNTP or SMTP.

Jeff Markham provided the following suggestion:

	I've been using the gmail system, and I've come up with
	something that seems to work ok with gmail and sendmail.

	Create the following two files.  The first is /bin/send:
	[gdr:  The second and third lines should be a single line
	       without the escaped newline.  It has been printed
	       here as is for clarity:

		#!/bin/gsh
		/bin/foreach x /var/spool/sendmail/out/* \
			< /bin/send.dat > .null

	The second is /bin/send.dat:

		tail +2 $x | /usr/sbin/sendmail 
		rm $x

	That combo works well enough to send the mail on it's way.
	The way I use to get around gmail's need for all config
	files to be in the same folder as the exe is by using the
	following /bin/mail file:

		#! /bin/gsh
		rm /bin/signature /bin/gmail.cf > .null
		cp $HOME/gmail/* /bin
		gmail
		mv /bin/gmail.o $HOME/gmail
		send

	It copies all the set-up files, calls gmail, returns the
	only needed file to the users account and sends any mail.

	Comments on my process are welcome.
    

 

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