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- From: scampi@sanity.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 00:10:52
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- Fred Heitkamp (fheitka@ibm.net) wrote:
- : John Kelly (jkay@ragtime.vnet.net) wrote:
- : :
- : : fheitka@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp) writes:
- : :
- : : Yes, that is what your mail READER does. It gives you an enjoyable working
- : : environment for using mail. The *underpinnings* such as UUCP, SMTP etc are
- : : nasty and unfriendly, but you never have to use those programs manually;
- : : your reader interfaces with them.
- : :
- : I didn't mean to sound "Well Duh!", but I have been frustrated with this
- : sending mail on the Amiga business. I have used programs on my PC such as
- : Eudora where a requester box pops up when you start. It asks for your POP
- : mail box and your smtp machine, a few other things, then you're done.
- :
- : I was hoping there was something this easy on the Amiga. What is
- : the problem? No defined TCP/IP interface? I mean, the Amiga has a fairly
- : full featured OS and GUI. You'd think it would not be a problem.
-
- The TCP/IP interface is of course defined. The problems arise because there
- are so many different methods available to transfer news and mail. Some
- programs (e.g. THOR) try to integrate lots of these different methods into one
- package, which is probably a good thing if you are just starting out and need
- an easy, integrated way of doing things. The downside is that there are lots
- of features in there which no single user is ever going to use (all the BBS
- stuff, for example, if you are mainly using Internet e-mail). The downside for
- the _programmers_ is that they have to spend a lot of time getting all these
- various transfer methods working properly.
-
- Voodoo, on the other hand, concentrates on one thing - producing a nice
- environment to read and reply to your mail. By leaving all the other parts of
- the process to other programmers, the author can devote all his time to just
- this one task. This produces a lean program, and removes the need for
- including (and spending time developing, which is important) functions which
- you (the user) are never going to use. The downside for the user is that he
- has to configure all these external programs himself, and although the Voodoo
- docs give extensive details on how to do this, new, inexperienced users might
- be scared off. If, like many people, you have SMTPPost/SMTPd/AmiPOP set up
- _already_, and were using some other reader program before, you don't have to
- worry about it - you just plug the necessary commands into the program
- settings.
-
- In the end, which you choose is up to your personal taste, your existing
- setup, and your ability to set new programs up. YMMV
-
- "2 cents please sir...thank you" <kuh-ching>
-
- --Mat.
-