Re: Pagers and ISPs

Jeffrey Stevison ( (no email) )
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:06:51 -0500

That's an interesting approach, I will investigate it on my end. I'm a
Delphi programmer myself. Thanks for the clues though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stankavich <mike@ethergate.com>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Pagers and ISPs

>Jeffrey (and Ken),
>
>As you may or may not know iMail stores its user information in the NT
>Registry. What I have done is developed a Visual Basic app that calls the
>Registry API and creates, updates or deletes all the necessary iMail
account
>information. I originally developed it as an ActiveX DLL called from a
>trigger using sp_OACreate, etc which worked fine when I was running SQL and
>iMail on the same server, but I had some problems with that approach when I
>moved SQL to a different server. Now I have a table that I insert into with
>a trigger and run the VB program on the iMail server against that table on
a
>timer. It's been pretty stable since I made that change. If I invested some
>time I could remove my implementation-specific code so that anybody using
>iMail could use it. I've also thought about making it a full-fledged NT
>service, but I haven't had the time to do that so far. As I have a
>considerable amount of time and trouble invested in this program I'm not
>prepared to give it away. But if there's some interest I'll be glad to
spend
>a little time and get it ready for prime time, so to speak. I would
>encourage anybody who is interested to contact me by private email and we
>can discuss pricing options or even potentially joint development efforts.
>And yes, I can set up an evaluation.
>
>Thanks for your interest,
>
>Mike Stankavich, CTO
>
>NorFab/ISP, Inc.
>921 SW Washington St, Suite 404
>Portland OR 97205
>
>email: mike@ethergate.com
>www - business: http://www.ethergate.com
>www - personal: http://users.ethergate.com/mike
>
>(503) 972-2810 office
>(503) 972-2823 fax
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey Stevison <jstevison@emeraldsurf.net>
>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
>Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 12:45 PM
>Subject: Re: Pagers and ISPs
>
>
>I use iMail also, I would be interested in hearing about your homegrown
>solution.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Stankavich <mike@ethergate.com>
>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
>Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 11:50 AM
>Subject: Re: Pagers and ISPs
>
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>>Lamar,
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>>Not sure if this is what you're looking for but IMail by ipswitch has a
>>mail-to-pager module. You should be aware the the RadiusNT/Emerald
>>integration isn't very good for IMail, although I have a homegrown setup
>>that works well. They are at www.ipswitch.com.
>>
>>Mike Stankavich, CTO
>>
>>NorFab/ISP, Inc.
>>921 SW Washington St
>>Portland OR 97205
>>
>>email: mike@ethergate.com
>>www - business: http://www.ethergate.com
>>www - personal: http://users.ethergate.com/mike
>>
>>(503) 972-2810 office
>>(503) 972-2823 fax
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Lamar Townsend <lamar@shuttle.com>
>>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
>>Date: Sunday, August 16, 1998 10:41 PM
>>Subject: Pagers and ISPs
>>
>>
>>I have had alot of request in the past couple of weeks for people who want
>>to be able to receive email messages via their digital pagers and I was
>>wondering if I anyone know of any software that can do this. I'm thinking
>>about offering this as a service to my users in the form or many giving
>>them two email accounts like user@isp.net for their normal email and maybe
>>a secondary account like user@pager.isp.net. It looks like a local pager
>>company is providing about the same service.
>>
>>
>>Lamar Townsend
>>Microgear Computers & Microgear.Net
>>lamar@shuttle.com
>>lamar@microgear.net
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