Hi Vince,
 
regarding your question about "send mail from an HP3000"
two or three things come to my mind immediately...
 
a) There is some ported version of "sendmail" available
   on http://jazz.external.hp.com (free of charge) which
   I haven't tried yet but it might help you.
 
b) There is a freeware version of Netmail/3000 available
   at http://www.3k.com -- which I am using at present to
   send you this message from "my" 3000/959-200 at work.
 
   (no need for mailx as it offers its own interface for
   terminal users and POP3 server for fancy clients like
   Eudora (freeware) or <plug alert> Netscape Mail)
 
c) The freeware version of (b) is restricted to 2 users
   but the full product <plug alert> is available from
   3k Associates at http://www.3k.com -- you should get
   their 45-day trial version and examine that, too!
 
(For those of us using HPDESK or OpenDESK: DeskLink/3000
 from 3k Associates (plug again) adds a nice SMTP Gateway
 without the need to buy/maintain a UX box for this...)
 
Cheers, Lars/iX
 
[log in to unmask] (but only speaking for myself here)
 
  By the way, does "mature product" always need to mean
  "dead product" ?? I sometimes feel it also means "less
  fiddling" due to less frequent new versions to update.