We are running a Novell 4 Network of PCs, with our HP3000 Connected. We are
trialing a
POP3/SMTP Package on the HP3000 which works great with our W95 PCs using
Outlook.

We have a parallel email system using Lotus cc:Mail and I'm pre-empting our
requirements
and saying we may need to bridge the two. Since we have no DNS on the IP
Network, how will
the mail routing be performed. I presume you need DNS to get the recipient
machine's IP address
so you know which node to forward undelivered mail onto - or am
misunderstanding the way
Internet email works here...I'm relatively new to all this Networking
stuff...<g>

DNS has always puzzled me I'm afraid. AFAIK, it's just a way to translate a
name to an IP
address, but how does the machine requesting the conversion know where the
machine
with the "database" is? How does this work on the Internet? Is there a
giant server some-
where with all the domain names and IP addresses on it? <g>

Thanks for your indulgence...

Mark W.