Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words: There's a pine for DOS-only, here's a reference to it that uses WAT-TCP for Dos, here: http://www.smashco.com/wattcp.asp towards the bottom... includes other server & client software for DOS. Here is a reference for Elm for PC (MSDOS) Version 2.3 about 1/2 way down the page: http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.network.tcpip.mail.html Pegasus has a version for DOS: http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_pmail.htm Here's a clip of their sys. requirements: Pegasus Mail for DOS - system requirements * Any version of MS-DOS or PC-DOS v5.0 or later, Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT or 2000 * 2MB disk space, plus whatever is required for mail storage * 520KB available DOS RAM at the time the program is run =-=-=-=-= Here's a page about setting up a DOS client for email with Dialup PPP: http://www.komaromi.com/dos_email/ Dunno how good it is, I just found it and cut&pasted... Hopefully, that'll get you started... ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger P.S. Here's a link to the Google search I used: http://www.google.com/search?q=msdos+tcpip+mail+client&sourceid=mozilla… The keywords were -> msdos tcpip mail client <- ;-) -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!

Well, there's always telnet to the relevant MX's smtp port. Rudimentary, but good enough for the occasional small one-off, and it doesn't require anything more elaborate than telnet - which any OS with a TCP stack surely has. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B