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- From: hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Cross-Platform Mail Solutions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.173219.10632@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:32:19 GMT
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- Lines: 26
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- Folks;
-
- I've never know email could be such a big issue/problem in my freaking
- life! I know a few months ago there was a thread on which cross-platform
- mail solutions are recommended. At the time I had no use for such information.
- Now I do.
-
- We are looking for a cross-platform mail solution that works well in Unix,
- Mac and PC worlds. We would like to administer and serve the mail functions
- from a Unix host with the PCs, Macs and other Unix boxes acting as clients.
- Besides the usual features, we need a built-in network calendar tool,
- remote (dial-in) access, single Unix server to multiple platforms, ability
- to send binary files (byte-for-byte), maintenance utilities that run on Unix
- host, etc., etc., etc.
-
- We looked briefly at cc:Mail and found it not to be a viable alternative
- for a variety of reasons. I just got off the phone with the WordPerfect
- people talking about their WordPerfect Office product and was not overwhelmed.
-
- Anybody got any ideas. Oh yeah, the most important thing is that the
- system MUST run over TCP/IP on all platforms. No localtalk stuff for Macs,
- etc.
-
- --
- Horace
- horace.bowser@amd.com
-