NT Mail Interface

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NT Mail Interface

Using NTpage and NTmail you can easily setup an email to paging gateway. This allows you to provide a copy of your email automatically on your pager. Now you can receive your email anywhere, anytime. Plus no more checking to see if you have email, it just appears on your pager!

By the way, future versions of NTpage will include a fully integrated full blown SMTP email server just for this purpose.

Being able to easily interface paging to E-mail is a very important feature in this day of the Internet. The NTpage API interface kept this in mind. By using the either the DLL interface or the command line interface, you can interface NTpage to almost any system.

One very popular NT based E-mail system is the NT Mail Internet Shopper. At the time of this writing, NT Mail 4.0 had not been released. Supposedly, NT Mail 4.0 has a method of interfacing to a DLL. This would be the preferred method over the method I'm going to describe for NT Mail 3.xx.

To interface NT Mail 3.xx to NTpage, you will use the robot or EXE interface offered by NT Mail. This can be a domain robot or an individual user robot. You create a robot account through the NT Mail User Control Panel applet. As the command line you run the NTPAGER.EXE command line interface using special options.

Before you run the interface, you need to set NTpage defaults (use the NTpager SetDefault command)on the machine running NT mail.

See these parameters that you can set:

For example, run the following commands once and only once on the NT Mail NT machine:

NTPAGER SetDefault NtMailSendFrom"Y"
NTPAGER SetDefault NtMailSendTo"N"
NTPAGER SetDefault NtMailSendSubject"Y"
NTPAGER SetDefault NtMailSendBody"Y"
NTPAGER SetDefault NTMailMaxChars"80"

The above parameters set the machine's registry to tell NTPAGER how to format the e-mail message for the pager. You will also want to set the communications default such as:

NTPAGER SetDefault NamedPipeAddress"YourServerName"

In the command line field of the NT Mail Robot form, type something similar to the following:

c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c "c:\program files\ntpage\client\ntpager.exe" NtMailMode u"NameOfUserToSendTo"

Make sure you have the "Send mail to Robot" checkbox checked.

From here you can forward mail to the new Robot maildrop so that your E-mail gets sent to your pager.

The NtMailMode uses the QuickPage command of the API. This of course necessitates setting up a user using the Administrator before using the NT Mail interface.