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- From: jon@nutz.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Rhys Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:08:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <2254.6583T915T2602@nutz.demon.co.uk>
- References: <1152.6571T599T1450@icenet.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nutz.demon.co.uk
- X-NNTP-Posting-Host: nutz.demon.co.uk
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
- On 29-Dec-95 09:17:10 in message <1152.6571T599T1450@icenet.no>
- "Petter Nilsen" wrote about "Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?":-
- >In article <19951228.7655D90.13B1A@ragtime.vnet.net>, jkay@ragtime.vnet.net
- >(John Kelly) wrote:
-
- >> Since you already HAVE a newsreader, I'd like to suggest that you forget
- >> about THOR, and go straight to Voodoo .. currently the best MAIL READER
-
- >I'm sorry to oppose you, but from what I've seen in Voodoo, it doesn't have
- >anything that THOR doesn't have too. Quite the opposite, THOR has a lot of
- >features not present in Voodoo. But Voodoo looks nice and it's
- >probably easier install than THOR. But if you want features, go for THOR. Oh,
- >and the MIME stuff in Voodoo has been present in THOR for several months now.
-
- I feel every sympathy for the guy who started off this thread, I'm in the
- process of writing an installer script for a local ISP. Their main PoP
- uses SMTP, and their local PoP's use POP3. It's a nightmare for anyone
- setting up email etc on their Amiga who's using the internet for the first
- time. Especially when there are so many environment variables ect used by
- various programs. It is also assumed that you have some sort of UUCP hierarchy
- for email and news. Most programs that I've come into contact for example
- read UUlib:Config ! as well as look for environment variables.
-
- Thor is powerful has many features and goes a long way to including everything
- you need. Apart for collecting of SMTP mail, will this be implemented in future
- releases ?
-
- I've looked at VooDoo, and ineed it does look pretty. You still need a news-
- reader and you still need other mail programs to post and collect your mail.
-
- I haven't configured Thor as yet with this ISP and currently use AmiPOP
- to collect my mail. For posting mail I use SendMail, RMail and Graham Walters
- mailkick via SMTP. I wish someone would write a good SMTP mailer type program
- that was configurable via a good GUI or used tooltypes, I hate all these
- environment variables etc.
-
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