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ChainMail is a simple but convenient utility designed to facilitate communication between Macintoshes connected to a network. Currently, most netmail systems for the Mac require a dedicated or background “mail server” program to run at all times on some node on the network (the notorious “Message Center” to which InBox™ connects, for instance). Often, these systems’ costs, in dollars, hardware, and processing overhead, place them beyond the reach of users of small to mid-size networks. ChainMail doesn’t require a mail server application to constantly run; instead it uses the directory structure of a shared file server volume to communicate files, programs, and documents between nodes. Of course, all this implies that if you have no network, or if your network doesn’t have a file server on it, you’ll get nothing out of ChainMail.
