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- From: cantor@puffer.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
- Subject: Re: Novell/Unix Mail
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.171817.22103@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- References: <1992Dec30.180311.21623@trentu.ca> <C04s6o.46A@jti.com> <1992Dec31.195311.1570@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:18:17 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Dec31.195311.1570@eng.ufl.edu> mjw@mailbox.eng.ufl.edu (Mike Wohlgemuth) writes:
- >In article <C04s6o.46A@jti.com>, richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >|>
- >|> When I left my previous employer, I swore I'd do my level best to come up
- >|> with a better email solution than cc:Mail. Jupiter (my new company) has
- >|> a similar LAN but much smaller: a mix of Novell/DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX
- >|> systems. It had no email in place. Here's my solution:
- >|>
- >|> - elm 2.4
- >|> - Pegasus 2.3.4
- >|> - IDA sendmail 5.65c
- >|> - Charon 4.0
- >|> - Trumpet 1.05g
- >|> - Cnews
- >|> - trn
- >|>
- >|> The only item in the above list which carries any cost is Trumpet (shareware
- >|> as opposed to freeware). Why am I posting this?
- >|>
- >|> BECAUSE THIS SOLUTION IS BETTER!
- >|>
- >
- >I agree. We're stuck with cc:Mail here, and I absolutely hate it. I cannot
- >believe we spent thousands of dollars on the stuff, only to spend thousands
- >more in time spent fixing the stuff, and to be lied to by tech support. It
- >is the worst software product I have ever dealt with.
- >
- >Mike
-
- That's kind of surprising. We have a healthy mix of PC's and Macs on a
- LAN and have had little or no problems with cc:Mail. I think it's overpriced,
- but so is everything when it comes to networks. I haven't even talked to
- tech support.
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