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comp.mail.mime frequently asked questions list (FAQ) (2/3)

Part II -- MIME products

This is part II of a Frequently Asked Questions document about MIME, the
multipurpose and multi-media standard for Internet mail.

Part I covers frequently asked questions.

Part II is a listing of MIME products.

Part III covers advanced topics.


7 Freely available MIME software packages

Name:     Andrew
Product:  Multimedia system
Platform: Unix
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

    [ Susan Straub <[e-mail]> 11-Jan-1993 ]

    Andrew is a very large and ambitious software system developed at
    Carnegie Mellon University.  It is installed at hundreds of sites
    throughout the world, and includes a multimedia document editor,
    help system, and various other utilities.  In particular, it
    includes a feature-rich program, "messages", which can read and
    send mail and news articles in MIME format, including images,
    audio, richtext, and more.  Andrew is available in binary release
    for several Unix system architectures, and also in source form.
    Be warned that the source distribution is itself about 50
    megabytes, but you really are getting a LOT of stuff.  For
    information on how to obtain a copy of Andrew, send mail to
    [e-mail].


Name:     c-client
Product:  MUA library code
Platform: Unix, Macintosh, MS-DOS, TOPS-20
FTP:
Author:   Mark Crispin
Comments:

    [ comp.mail.misc FAQ ]

    Software writers only:

    c-client is a general library useful for creating MUA's.  It
    provides a Application Program Interface for retrieving and
    manipulating mail messages.  It supports the latest draft of
    MIME.  It is driver based, and easily ported to new platforms and
    MTAs.  The currently supported platforms include various versions
    of BSD and SysV Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh and even TOPS-20(!).  It
    supports mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail, mbox, mail.txt, mh, carmel
    format, as well as remote mailbox access via the IMAP2 protocol
    described in RFC-1176 and extended by the IMAP2bis extensions.

    c-client does not contain any user interface.  Rather, it contains
    everything else that goes into an MUA.  c-client is called with
    such functions as mail_open(), mail_fetchheader(), mail_setflag(),
    etc.

    Just the thing if you want to write a new MUA.

    Contact the author (Mark Crispin <[e-mail]>) for more details.


Name:     elm
Product:  MUA
Platform: Unix
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

    [ Syd Weinstein <[e-mail]> 21-Dec-1992 ]

    Elm support for MIME:
    2.3 - uses metamail supplied patch from Nathaniel Borenstein.

    2.4:
        reading: detects MIME headers and calls metamail automatically
        if the message cannot be displayed on the current screen using
        the native capabilities of the display (recognizes some char
        sets as native)

        sending: detects [include ] markers and makes them MIME attachments.
        Still very 'crude', but its all we had time for, as to the
        release deadline of 'Elm' and MIME.

    3.x:
        reading: probably no change from 2.x, but will understand
        some 'file storage' types and allow for splitting off attachments
        on their own.

        sending: will allow defining attachments to be added and auto build
        the MIME stuff, in addition to the [include ] syntax.

    release status:
    2.3: obsolete
    2.4: Current PL is 17.
    3.x: not planned until some time in 1994.


Name:     emil
Product:  tool
Platform: Unix
FTP:      ftp.uu.se:pub/unix/networking/mail/emil
FTP:      ftp.sunet.se:pub/unix/mail/emil
Author:   Martin Wendel <[e-mail]>
Comments:

    [ Martin Wendel <[e-mail]> 8-Nov-1993]

    Emil is a tool for converting between message formats used by MIME,
    Eudora, SUN mailtool, PC and Mac based clients, etc. It is easily
    extensible. It can work either standalone, as an argument driven
    filter program, or, if linked with sendmail8.6. or IDA sendmail,
    as a mail gateway convertering messages sent between various types
    of Internet mail clients. It will give a possibility to convert
    encoding formats of attachments and convert character sets of
    text. It can make a heterogenous mail environment, consisting of
    various types of mail clients, act as a homogenous environment; for
    instance sending only MIME based messages to the outside world.


Name:     encdec
Product:  tool
Platform: ISO C
FTP:      ftp.efd.lth.se:pub/mail/encdec.c.gz
Author:   Joergen Haegg <[e-mail]>
Comments: encdec is a simple standalone encoder/decoder for base64 and
          quoted printable written in ISO C.


Name:     Eudora 1.4
Product:  MUA
Platform: Macintosh
FTP:      qualcomm.com:mac/eudora/1.4/Eudora1.4.sea.hqx
Author:   Steve Dorner <[e-mail]>
Comments:

Eudora 1.4 is a MUA for Macs that uses POP3 and SMTP and supports MIME.


Name:     HUyMail
Product:  MTA/MUA
Platform: VMS
FTP:      ftp.technion.ac.il:pub/unsupported/vms/local/local/huymail*.bck
Author:   Yehavi Bourvine
Comments:

    [ Yehavi Bourvine <[e-mail]> 22-Jul-1993 ]

    HUyMailer is a store and forward mailer for VAX/VMS and AXP/VMS
    systems which supports as transports: DECnet, Multinet/TcpIp,
    HUJI-NJE and PMDF.  The software is available freely for
    non-commercial use as a C source code.

    The mailer supports two users' interfaces: VMS/MAIL (to which the
    connection is done via MAIL11 DECnet connection) or a locally
    written interface called BMAIL.  BMAIL is a menu oriented interface
    which supports MIME and Hebrew.


Name:     Iride
Product:  MUA
Platform: Macintosh
FTP:      gnbts.univ.trieste.it:mime/Iride.sea.hqx
Author:   GNBTS
Comments:

    [ From the README ]

    Iride is (or will be -- it's currently in beta test) an
    implementation of a MIME user agent on the Apple Macintosh
    computer.  It was developed as part of a project of the GNBTS -
    Gruppo Nazionale Bioingegneria sezione di Trieste, for the
    integration of multimedia mail with hospital data storing
    facilities, in particular for the transfer of bioimages.

    This is a far from a complete MIME implementation, but I think
    it is quite usable.

    To use it you need:
        o Macintosh with MacTCP 1.1 or better installed
        o 32 bit ColorQuickDraw if you want to use images
        o audio input device if you want to create audio messages
        o connection to a SMTP mail relay
        o connection to a POP3 server

    MIME types supported:

    text/plain              charset=US-ASCII only
    text/richtext           (no tool for composing richtext yet)

    audio/basic
    audio/X-macaudio        generated when a NOT sampled audio pasted in

    image/GIF
    image/X-macPICT         generated when color QuickDraw is missing only

    multipart/mixed         each part is shown in a different window
                            MUST change this
    multipart/parallel
    multipart/alternative   handled as multipart/mixed
                            MUST change this


Name:     metamail
Product:  MUA and tools
Platform: Unix Amiga MS-DOS
FTP:      thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/mm.2.6.tar.Z
          The metamail distribution that Nathaniel Borenstein supports.
FTP:      thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/contrib2.6.tar.Z
          Contributed sources.
FTP:      thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/amiga2.5.tar
          Amiga binaries and utilities
FTP:      thumper.bellcore.com:pub/nsb/dos2.5.tar.Z
          MS-DOS binaries
Author: Nathaniel Borenstein
Comments:

    [ Paul Eggert <[e-mail]> ]

    Metamail is a software implementation of MIME, designed for easy
    integration with traditional mail-reading interfaces -- typically,
    users do not invoke metamail directly.  Ideally, extending the
    local email or news system to handle a new media format is a
    simple matter of adding a line to a mailcap file.  Mailcap files
    are described in RFC 1343.


Name:     MH 6.8
Product:  MUA
Platform: Unix
FTP:      ftp.ics.uci.edu:pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z
FTP:      louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z
Author:
Comments:

MIME support is available for the MH message handling system; the
primary reader and generator is the program mhn(1) although other MH
programs are also changed.  The current release of MH is 6.8, the first
to include MIME support when appropriately installed.  mhn does not
use the mailcap mechanism described in RFC 1343.

A tutorial for mhn is available:

FTP:      ftp.ics.uci.edu:mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex, .sty, .ps

See the newsgroup comp.mail.mh for further information.


Name:     MIME for VM/CMS
Product:
Platform: VM/CMS
FTP:      { gopher, see comments }
Author:
Comments:

    [ Rick Troth <[e-mail]> 21-Jul-1993 ]

    This MIME decoder is available via Gopher from ricevm1.rice.edu
    under "Other freely distributable CMS software", which is under
    "CMS Gopher Software".

    It correctly reads:

        o text/plain,
        o text/richtext, and
        o image/gif.

    GIFs require the VMGIF package from Belgium.  I need filters for
    PBM and PGM and then they'd work too.  Sounds are not useful on
    the standard 3270 terminal (dumb terminals just don't play sounds).

    It splits out multipart/[anything] into separate files.  CMS has a
    standard directory "browser" (FILELIST) that lets you view a bunch
    of related files and decide what, if anything, you want to do with
    them.

    Message/external-body doesn't work well, but probably will given
    more development time.  I could use some samples to help with the
    debugging of that part.

    It does NOT do applications, except for the one, octet-stream.
    (which is treated as a kind-of "sendfile" utility) There *is* a
    PostScript interpreter for CMS, but it is reported to be a dog (we
    don't have it).  But I do hope to put the extraction code in for
    these eventually.

    If a given content-type isn't understood, you just view the item
    as-is.

    For composition, there's no CHARSET= parameter on the
    Content-Type: text/plain line.  It's EBCDIC until it gets into
    SMTP, then it's ASCII, then it might be anything, so I've left off
    the CHARSET= parameter.

    An "attach" command is added to RiceMAIL when you run this, which
    would then change the message from text/plain to multipart/mixed
    and append the attachment after a boundary.  Attachments don't
    "close" properly; that is, the final boundary isn't correct, but is
    correctly processed by all of the MIME compliant readers I've
    checked.  (there's some feature of RiceMAIL that causes this)

    This thing is based on CMS Pipelines, so adding features is easy
    since we now have the base for MIME processing.


Name:     MIME tools for GNU Emacs
Product:  MUA
Platform:
FTP:      wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp:pub/GNU/etc/emacs-mime-tools.shar
Author:   Masanobu UMEDA
Comments:

    [ Masanobu UMEDA <[e-mail]> 07-Aug-1993 ]

    MIME tools that consist of "mime.el", "rmailmime.el" and
    "metamail.el" are tools for reading and composition of MIME
    messages for GNU Emacs and its variants.  "mime.el" is a simple
    MIME message composer that works with mail mode, news mode, and
    mhe letter mode.  Messages of plain and richtext text, audio, and
    image, and multipart messages of them can be composed by using
    "mime.el".  "rmailmime.el" is for reading MIME messages within
    Rmail.  "metamail.el" is an interface to metamail.  The metamail
    package is required by these tools.


Name:     MIME tools for NeXT
Product:  editor
Platform: NeXT
FTP:
Author:   Dave Lacey
Comments:

    [ Dave Lacey <[e-mail]> ]

    I'd like to keep you apprised of some MIME work I'm doing.  I'm
    interested in using MIME as a transport medium for multi-media
    gopher documents.  My particular use is for Radiology info, but it
    would work for just about anything.

    I've got a NeXT Gopher client almost working and I also have a
    NeXT based MIME file editor that reads/creates MIME documents.
    Both work, but need a bit more extension.  I will likely
    distribute the source to this, so the MIME reader (which is
    essentially an object) can be re-used in other apps.


Name:     MIXMH
Product:  MUA
Platform: Unix with X
FTP:      aun.uninett.no:pub/unix/mixmh-0.2.tar.Z
Author:
Comments:

    [ Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[e-mail]> 10-Dec-1992 ]

    This version is based on XMH version 1.6 from SEI, Carnegie Mellon.
    It supports sending MIME with extended character sets in the headers
    (per RFC 1342) and the body (per RFC 1341 text/plain).  It has
    limited support for multipart messages.

    The source is freely redistributable and modifiable.

    As you can see from the version number, it is still not considered
    fully stable. Bugs may be reported to [e-mail]
    Information and discussion will take place on [e-mail];
    mail to [e-mail] to join.


Name:     mpack
Product:  MUA/utility
Platform: Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Amiga
FTP:      export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-src.tar.Z
          Sources for all versions except Amiga
FTP:      export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-src-amiga.tar.Z
          Additional sources for Amiga
FTP:      export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-pc.tar.Z
          MS-DOS binaries
FTP:      export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-mac.hqx
          Macintosh binary
FTP:      export.acs.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.0-amiga.lha
          Amiga binaries
Author:   John Gardiner Myers, Chris Newman (Mac), Mike Meyer (Amiga)
Comments:

    [ John Gardiner Myers <[e-mail]> 2-Oct-1993 ]

    Mpack is a minimal implementation of MIME, designed for encoding and
    decoding binary files in MIME messages.  In short, it is the MIME
    equivalent of uuencode and uudecode.  For backwards compatibility,
    it can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format.


Name:     Pegasus mail
Product:
Platform: MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh
FTP:      risc.ua.edu:pub/network/pegasus/*
Author:   David Harris <[e-mail]>
Comments:

    [ James Ford <[e-mail]> 2-Nov-1993 ]

    Pegasus Mail is an Email package for Novell network v2.15 and higher
    that supports MHS (natively) and SMTP.  The MS-DOS version (v3.01a)
    is MIME compliant; the MS-Windows version should be by mid-November.
    I do not know the timetable for the Mac version.  You can either
    get a PC-based SMTP gateway for it (Charon, by Brad Clements) or a
    (Netware v3.11) NLM-based version (Mercury, by David Harris) from
    risc.ua.edu.  I believe that the SMTP gateway Mercury supports 8-bit
    MIME encoding.


Name:     Pine
Product:  MUA
Platform: Unix
FTP:      pine.cac.washington.edu:mail/pine.tar.Z
          Full distribution, including Pico and IMAPd
          Binaries also available in the same directory
Author:   Laurence Lundblade, Michael Seibel, Mark Crispin
Comments:

    [ From the release notes 21-Sep-1993 ]

    Pine(tm) --a Program for Internet News & Email-- is a tool for
    reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.  It was designed
    specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored
    to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.  Pine uses
    Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP)
    and runs on Unix and MS-DOS.

    The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful
    limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands,
    always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and high
    tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended that Pine can be learned
    by exploration rather than reading manuals.  Feedback from the
    University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet
    sites has been encouraging.

    Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a
    separate stand-alone program.  Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use
    text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a
    spelling checker.


7.1 Conversions from other mail systems

A number of older email systems have defined ad hoc ways of dealing
with binary file enclosures and multipart messages.  This section is
a pointer to some tools that would aid in transition efforts to the
standard MIME approach.

Name:     n2m
Product:  conversion tool
Platform: NeXT
FTP:      nexus.yorku.ca:pub/n2m.shar
Author:
Comments:

    [ Dave Collier-Brown <[e-mail]> 04-Jan-1993 ]

    Nn2m is a program that converts a file containing a NeXT-format
    multimedia message into a file containing a MIME-format multimedia
    message.

    It is usable on Berkeley-derived systems, or ones otherwise using
    /usr/lib/sendmail as a mail transfer agent. It is in use on SunOS
    4.1.1 and Ultrix 4.2, tested briefly on Aix 3.2 and NeXT.

    Description: it is used with non-NeXT mail user agents to convert
    NeXT mail to MIME, which is intelligible to more than just the NeXT
    mail program.  The resulting file will usually be more intelligible
    to non-multimedia mail user agents.

    The textual part of the mail is converted into text, as well as
    Microsoft RTF, and the attachments follow, as text/plain wherever
    possible, as base64 encoded binaries otherwise.  This suffices for
    messages with ASCII files pasted into them.

    Caveat:  This is a converter, not a translator: the conversion of
    sound and of the initial ``index.rft'' file is not correctness-
    preserving.


Name:     sun-to-mime
Product:  conversion tool
Platform: OpenWindows
FTP:      cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.perl
FTP:      cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.c
Author:   Keith Moore
Comments:

    [ Keith Moore <[e-mail]> 27-Dec-1992 ]

    A perl script (and conversion to C of same) that converts
    OpenWindows mail to MIME.  Body parts currently supported are:
    text, gif, Sun rasterfile (converted to image/gif), postscript, and
    audio.  Other types default to application/octet-stream.  It's easy
    to extend the set of types supported and to add conversions, if
    necessary.

    The script requires uuencode, uudecode, zcat (aka uncompress),
    and the "convert" program from ImageMagick.  If you don't have
    ImageMagick you can probably substitute the pbm stuff with little
    fuss.


Name:     uu-to-mime
Product:  conversion tool
Platform: perl
FTP:      cs.utk.edu:pub/MIME/uu-to-mime.perl
Author:   Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
Comments: A perl script that translates an RFC 822 message containing a
          single uuencoded file to a MIME message containing a
          base64-encoded file.


8 Commercial MIME software packages

Name:     ECSMail
Product:  MUA/MTA
Platform: Unix, NT, OS/2, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Mac System 7
Contact:  ECS Sales <[e-mail]>
Author:
Comments:

    [ Steve Hole <[e-mail]> 24-Aug-1993 ]

    ECSMail is an electronic mail product for building enterprise mail
    systems.  It is designed from start to finish as a system for
    establishing mail services throughout an organization, with external
    organizations and the world information system in general.  It does
    this by using a completely standards based architecture.

    ECSMail is comprised of the following system components:

     ECSMail MUA Set      - a set of Mail User Agents (MUA)
     ECSMail MTA Set      - a set of Message Transport Agents (MTA)
     ECSMail MS Set       - a set of Message Services (MS)

    All components support both MIME/822 and X.400, and run under
    Unix, Microsoft NT, OS/2, OpenVMS.  Additionally, the MUA Set runs
    under MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac System 7.

    Pricing for the ECS products and ISA business information can be
    obtained by contacting:

     ECS Sales
     835 10040 - 104 Street
     Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
     T5J 0Z2

     Phone: [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]

    or by sending a request through electronic mail to the address:

     ECS Sales <[e-mail]>


Name:     Eudora 2.0
Product:  MUA
Platform: Macintosh
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Steve Dorner <[e-mail]>
Comments:

A commercial version with more features than the freely available one.  For
pricing information, see

FTP:      qualcomm.com:/mac/eudora/E_by_QC.sea.hqx


Name:     IBM multimedia mail
Product:
Platform: OS/2
Contact:  Jerry Cuomo <[e-mail]>
Author:   IBM
Comments:

    [ Larry Salomon Jr <[e-mail]> 10-Dec-1992 ]

    I'm not going to follow this group, but I wanted to state that IBM -
    at the T.J. Watson Research Center - is developing a multimedia mail
    application for OS/2 which is based on the Mime spec.  They demoed
    it at Interop.

    For more information, including (probably) how to become a test site
    (I haven't confirmed whether they're actually going to do this,
    but they've done it before), contact the department manager, Jerry
    Cuomo, at [e-mail].


Name:     iGate
Product:  WordPerfect Office gateway
Platform:
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Smart Systems
Comments:

    [ Quentin Smart <[e-mail]> 25-Sep-1993 ]

    iGate provides seamless conectivity to SMTP mail from WordPerfect
    office.  Running as a native gateway under the Office Connection
    server and incorporting a TCP/IP stack iGate is a complete solution
    with no extras like MHS or TCP/IP stacks required.

    Further information from:

        Smart Systems
        PO Box 5017
        Wellington, New Zealand
        [phone]
        [e-mail]


Name:     Mail*Hub
Product:
Platform: Control Data 4000 Series Mips-based Unix systems
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Control Data Systems
Comments:

    [ <[e-mail]> 23-Dec-1992 ]

    Mail*Hub includes support for X.400, X.500, SMTP, and creating,
    viewing, and sending MIME enclosures in mail. In addition, the Fax
    Gateway portion of Mail*Hub supports sending mail with MIME
    enclosures to a Fax machine.  Graphical MIME components
    (Postscript, GIF, TIFF,...)  are automatically recognized and
    imaged at the receiving Fax machine.


Name:     Mail-it
Product:  MUA
Platform: MS-Windows
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Unipalm Ltd
Comments:

    [ Tom Kermeen <[e-mail]> 11-Aug-1993 ]

    Mail-it is a mail user agent for Windows 3.1.  Implemented using the
    Microsoft Extended MAPI architecture and with MIME functionality
    added in, Mail-it v2.0 has a wide range of features including:
        full drag and drop;
        hierarchical foldering;
        interaction with mail-aware and mail-enabled applications (MAPI);
        full MIME support;
        local address book;
        access to MAPI-enabled directory services;
        support for SMTP, POP2, POP3, and UUCP;

    Currently in beta, Mail-it v2.0 will ship in Q4 93.  For further
    information email [e-mail].


Name:      MEUF
Product:   MUA
Platform:  Unix/X
Contact:
Author:    Daniel Glazman
Comments:

    [ Daniel Glazman <[e-mail]> 30-Aug-1993 ]

    Meuf is a student project (now 2 years old) I developed at Ecole
    Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris with the
    System staff. It has grown A LOT to become a MIME-native MUA
    running under Xt/Xaw.

    Earlier non-MIME versions (1.3 and 1.4) are available by anonymous
    ftp from ftp.inria.fr and ftp.enst.fr. They are used by at least 4
    industrial and academic sites in France.

    Meuf full-MIME version is currently in beta-test and may become a
    commercial product.


Name:     MPOWER
Product:
Platform:
Contact:
Author:   HP
Comments:

    [ Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]> 22-Jan-1993 ]

    If anyone is interested, the new multimedia product from HP called
    MPOWER supports MIME format mail.

    You can drag and drop a picture onto the mail icon, and it will be
    sent as a MIME message.

    (Unfortunately, they forgot to quote the delimiter that had a dot in
    it, and PINE failed to parse that......well, it's a betatest.)


Name:     PC-MM (PC Mail Manager)
Product:  MUA
Platform: MS-Windows
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   ICL
Comments:

    [ Tomas Kullman <[e-mail]> 30-Sep-1993 ]

    PC-MM from ICL is a Mail User Agent for Windows 3.1 implemented on
    Windows Socket API and TCP/IP. PC-MM is currently working on PC-NFS
    but is designed to be network software independent (i.e. will work
    on most TCP/IP softwares supporting WinSocket API).

    PC-MM is a MIME conformant internet mailer supporting SMTP and IMAP2
    for sending and receiving. PC-MM requires a UNIX mail server (or
    similar supporting SMTP and IMAP2).

    PC-MM V1.0 supports a lot of nice features, such as:
         - user friendly interface
         - built-in and user-defined text editor
         - drag and drop between folders
         - local and server based folders
         - integrated address book
         - message sorting and tagging
         - "watch dog" for incoming messages

    PC Mail Manager is announced and volume shipping mid November 1993.

    For pricing and product packaging information please contact Lars
    Hagberg at ICL ProSystems AB; E-mail: [e-mail] or
    phone: + 46 (0)13 11 70 00.


Name:     PMDF
Product:  MTA
Platform: VMS
Contact:  [e-mail] [e-mail]
Author:   Innosoft International
Comments:

The VMSNET newsgroup 'vmsnet.mail.pmdf' is available for discussion.

    [ Ned Freed <[e-mail]> ]

    Send technical inquiries to [e-mail]. Product
    information, pricing, and literature can be obtained from
    [e-mail]. The phone number is [phone]; FAX is
    [phone]. Street address is:

        Innosoft International, Inc.
        250 W. First St., Suite 240
        Claremont, CA 91711


Name:     PP
Product:  MTA
Platform: Unix
Contact:
Author:
Comments:

PP is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), kindof son-of-MMDF-plus-X.400.  It
is built on ISODE.

    [ Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]> 18-Dec-1992 ]

    The ISODE Consortium release of PP will in the near future support
    gatewaying between MIME and X.400 according to the MIME-MHS
    Internet-Drafts.

It will also support ESMTP.


Name:     SMTPLINK 2.1
Product:
Platform:
Contact:
Author:
Comments:

    [ <[e-mail]> 16-Dec-1992 ]

    Because this version (2.1) is a 2-3 QTR-93 release you should be
    talking to your sales rep about the tentative features of this
    product. They can be reached at 800-448-2500.


Name:     STI Document Browser
Product:  MS-Windows 3.1 (shipping), NeXTstep/X11/VMS (in the pipeline)
Platform:
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Stream Technologies Inc
Comments:

    [ Ed Anselmo <[e-mail]> 31-Dec-1992 ]

    Product name:   STI Document Browser
    Platforms:

    How and where to get:
        Stream Technologies Inc.
        Valkjarventie 2
        SF-02130 Espoo
        FINLAND
        Tel: [phone]
        Fax: [phone]
        Email: [e-mail]


Name:     Super-TCP
Product:
Platform: MS-Windows
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Frontier Technologies
Comments:

    [ Ray C Langford <[e-mail]> 28-Apr-1993 ]

    Frontier Technologies' Super-TCP for MS-Windows includes MIME
    support in their Email mail system that is a part of the Super-TCP
    for Windows package.

    Super-TCP for Windows is a Windows Sockets compliant, 100% DLL
    implementation that can also operate in a TSR mode. Applications
    include: Network News Reader, Telnet, FTP Client/Server, NFS
    Client/Server, SMTP/POP2&3 MIME Email, Telnet Redirector,
    Interactive Talk, and more. Options are also available for PPP,
    X.25, and OSI.

    With the MIME support in Email, any type of binary file may be
    attached to your message, including Postscript files, spreadsheet
    files, database files, word processor files, graphic files, audio
    files, and digital video files.

    The packages in the Super-TCP product line that include the
    Email (SMTP/POP2&3) with MIME support are:
        - Super-TCP for Windows   Version 3.0
                (Complete TCP/IP package)
        - Super-TCP/NFS for Windows   Version 3.0
                (Complete TCP/IP package with NFS client/server)
        - Super-TCP Applications for Windows   Version 3.0
                (Windows Sockets applications only)

    For further information, email [e-mail] or call
    [phone].


Name:     Z-Mail
Product:  MUA
Platform: Unix
Contact:  [e-mail]
Author:   Z-Code Software Corporation
Comments:

    [ Carlyn M. Lowery <[e-mail]> 29-May-1993 ]

    Z-Mail, a Unix World Magazine "Product of the Year" winner for 1991,
    is a complete electronic mail system for workstations.  Z-Mail
    provides Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces, as well
    as two character modes.  The software has been ported to nearly
    every system that runs Unix, and it works with all standard Unix
    mail transport agents including sendmail, binmail, smail, MMDF and
    X.400 gateways.  Z-Mail can replace or coexist with standard mail
    user agents on the system, including BSD Mail, AT&T mailx, Sun Mail
    Tool, Elm, or Mush.  Most anyone can use Z-Mail "off the shelf" and
    immediately benefit from its simple interface and advanced features.

    Z-Mail also includes Z-Script, a powerful scripting language that
    enables users to customize and extend Z-Mail's capabilities.
    Z-Mail's multi-media capabilities allow easy integration with
    best-of-class products including spreadsheets, desk-top publishing,
    graphics, fax, voice, and video. For example, when users receive a
    spreadsheet file, Z-Mail can be configured to automatically launch
    the associated application and load the the attachment automatically
    and transparently to the user.  Z-Mail understands MIME-format
    documents and is also compatible with Sun's multimedia Mailtool.

    Mac, MS-DOS, and MS-Windows versions, as well as native MIME
    support, are planned for this summer.

    For more information on Z-Mail, contact:
        Z-Code Software Corp.
        4340 Redwood Hwy., Suite B-50
        San Rafael, CA 94903
        tel: [phone]
        fax: [phone]
        e-mail: [e-mail]

    Also, you can anonymous-ftp a demo copy of Z-Mail from "ora.com" in
    the directory pub/z-code/zmail/2.1.  (The file you want is named
    zm.XXX.tar.Z, where XXX is your type of machine.)  You'll need to
    call us after you do so we can send you an activation key.


9 MIME and Usenet news

9.1 Introduction

Usenet articles are (by design) very similar to RFC 822 mail messages.
It is therefore reasonable to expect MIME software to be adopted for use
on Usenet.


9.2 News readers and transports with MIME support

Name:     GNUS
Product:  reader
Platform: GNU Emacs
FTP:
Author:   Masanobu UMEDA
Comments:

    [ Masanobu UMEDA <[e-mail]> 07-Aug-1993 ]

    GNUS is an NNTP-based newsreader for GNU Emacs.  GNUS versions
    3.14.4 and later directly support reading of articles written in
    MIME format.  It only requires the metamail package.  Compositions
    of articles written in MIME format requires "mime.el" that is a
    part of MIME tools for GNU Emacs (see 3.13).


Name:     gnus-mime.el
Product:  reaJoe Ilacqua der
Platform: GNU Emacs
FTP:      world.std.com:dist/gnus-mime.el.shar
          (also in the contrib tree of metamail)
Author:   Joe Ilacqua
Comments:

    [ Joe Ilacqua <[e-mail]> 24-Jun-1993 ]

    "gnus-mime.el" is an ELISP package that adds support for MIME to
    GNUS.  This is the second release: I consider it very beta, and I'm
    sure there are bugs, but it does work.  It provides support both to
    read and to post USENET articles in MIME format.  It's scarcest
    feature is support for multi-part multi-media ".signatures".

I believe that gnus-mime.el is for GNUS prior to version 3.14.4.


Name:     INN
Product:  transport
Platform:
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

    [ Christopher Davis <[e-mail]> 03-Jun-1993 ]

    There is some minimal MIME support in the INN package.  Since INN
    is a transport system, not a newsreader, the support is for
    transferring MIME messages, not reading them.

    [ Christophe Wolfhugel <[e-mail]> 23-Jul-1993 ]

    INN's MIME support is today divided in two parts:

    1) the possibility to have nnrpd add default MIME headers to
    locally posted articles;

    2) transfer-encoding changes on transport with `innxmit', i.e. recode
    8bit to quoted-printable.


Name:     MH
Product:  reader
Platform:
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

    [ John Romine <[e-mail]> 30-Jul-1993 ]

    If you compile MH to use NNTP, it can read news with its "bbc"
    command; MH supports MIME.


Name:     nn
Product:  reader
Platform:
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

    [ Luc Rooijakkers <[e-mail]> 26-Jul-1993 ]

    The current beta release of nn tags newly posted articles as
    text/plain; charset=xxx with transfer encoding 8bit if the message
    contains any 8 bit characters.

    Reading support needs further work.


Name:     SNews
Product:  reader
Platform: MS-DOS OS/2
FTP:      ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snews191.zip
          MS-DOS binaries
FTP:      ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191o.zip
          OS/2 binaries
FTP:      ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191s.zip
          Source
Author:
Comments:

    [ Daniel Fandrich <[e-mail]> 27-Aug-1993 ]

    Revision 1.91 of the SNews newsreader for MS-DOS systems
    fixes several bugs in version 1.90 (alpha), as well as adding
    some much-needed features, including built-in support for ISO
    8859/1/2/3/4/9 character sets (RFC 1521 and RFC 1522) and a single
    key interface to the metamail MIME decoder (or other user-specified
    program).  An additional bonus is the availability of an OS/2
    version.


Name:     trn
Product:  reader
Platform:
FTP:
Author:
Comments:

trn 3.0 has support for reading MIME articles with metamail, and
creating them with mhn.


End of Part II