I'm considering writing a sendmail-type subsystem for MPE/V.  To do this,
I need to setup some primitive TCP/IP or X.25 connection from the Ethernet
port on the back of a HP3000 Series 42 (or even a serial port) to the
Linux box we have connecting my high school to the Internet (well, not
yet... we still need to get money for Internet, but the sys. is ready).
My initial plans were to use one serial port on the HP, connected to the
Linux sys, and dump out sendmail mail-files to the sendmail subsystem on
Linux, and from there, Linux would use it's smtp to send it to the net.
I was going to assign an Internet address to the MPE box.  When a mail
message would come addressed to the MPE box, it would be routed through
the serial port (processed by smtp already) on the Linux box to the MPE box,
and my pseudo-deliver system on the MPE sys would deliver it to the according
user, by cross-referencing an IMAGE database.
 
  If this works, I'm going to try rigging up a rsh subsystem, allowing
some remote access to and from the MPE/V system.  Hopefully, MPE/V can
help me with the TCP/IP end (otherwise, I'm going to have to write
makeshift protocols), and maybe I can set up a multichannel, UNIX
compatible route to and from the MPE system via Ethernet.
 
  Has anyone done this before to tell me whether or not it would work?
If I can get Email to work, Usenet should be just as easy... ?
 
Daniel Kosack
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