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- UUCP Mail, News, and Gateway Software for PCs and MACs
- Eric S Johansson
- Version: Issue #3.2 - Preliminary
- Last Updated: Dec 29, 1992
- Posted to: comp.mail.uucp, news.software.readers, vmsnet.uucp
-
- This document is a list of UUCP Mail, News and Gateway implementations for the
- PC and MAC. It does not currently include TCP/IP, POPn, SMTP, IMAP, or NNTP
- packages unless they also support UUCP. If you have additions or changes please
- send them to me:
-
- Eric S Johansson esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-
- Because I do not have much spare time, I am very slow at getting updates
- incorporated into this document. When sending updates, the closer you can
- make the changes to a cut and paste, the sooner I will get the changes
- into this FAQ. Thanks for the help.
-
- I would like to include news and mail packages for personal computers
- other than DOS and Macintosh boxes (like the Atari ST and Amiga). Please
- tell me what you know and I will include it.
-
- Attributions:
-
- I received this document from James H. Thompson (jimmy_t@verifone.com)
- shortly after I foolishly proclaimed that I would build and maintain
- a UUPC supplier FAQ. Thank you Jim for building this document and to
- all the people who sent the information used to build this document.
-
- Other helpful people include:
- sreck@rebox.in-berlin.de (Stefan Reck)
- Arthur Britto
- stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)
- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr>
-
- No visible means of support:
-
- THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
- THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
- INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY
- OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- Changes since prior issue:
-
- added info on NWREADER
- added info on RWMAIL
- added info on HoloNet
- updated Waffle info
- added info RUSNEWS
-
- Contents:
-
- 1. Recommended Reading
- 2. Commercial UUCP Network connections
- Anterior Technology
- DMConnection
- HoloNet
- MSEN
- Netcom
- PSI
- UUNET
- 3. List of PC Packages
- DistNet
- EZ-Mail
- FREDGATE
- FSUUCP
- MUSH
- NWREADER
- PCB/Usenet Gateway
- PCElm
- PCNews
- PMAIL (Pegasus Mail)
- RAMNET
- READMAIL
- RWMAIL
- SMAIL
- SNEWS
- UFGATE
- UGATE
- UULINK
- uuPCB
- UUPC/extended
- V-MailServer
- WAFFLE
- WafMail
- WWCP
- ZMail
- 3. List of MAC Packages
- Fernmail
- Mac/Gnuucp
- uAccess
- UUPC - MAC
-
-
- 1. Recommended Reading
-
- "The Matrix - Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide"
- Author: John S. Quarterman
- Copyright: 1990
- Publisher: Digital Press
- TEL: 800-DIGITAL
- Modem: 800-234-1998
-
- "The User's Directory of Computer Networks"
- Author: Tracy L LaQuey
- Copyright: 1990
- Publisher: Digital Press
- TEL: 800-DIGITAL
- Modem: 800-234-1998
-
- "!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks"
- Author: Donnalyn Frey and Rick Adams
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
- 103 Morris Street, Suite A
- Sebastopol, CA 95472
- Email: nuts@ora.com
- Phone: 800-338-6887
- 707-829-0515
- FAX: 707-829-0104
-
- "Managing UUCP and the Usenet"
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
- 103 Morris Street, Suite A
- Sebastopol, CA 95472
- Email: nuts@ora.com
- Phone: 800-338-6887
- 707-829-0515
- FAX: 707-829-0104
-
- BoardWatch Magazine
- 5970 South Vivian Street
- Littleton, CO 80127
- Tel: 800-933-6038
- 303-973-4222
- FAX: 303-973-3731
- Email: jrickard@boardwatch.com
- Price: $36/year
-
- "How to become a USENET site"
- Author: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@athena.mit.edu>
- Latest Version: 22 Mar 92 06:00:52 GMT
- Where to get: Posted periodically in newsgroups:
- news.admin,news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- Summary: Periodic posting about the basic steps involved
- getting connected to USENET.
-
- "The BMUG Guide to Bulletin Boards and Beyond"
- Author: Bernard Aboba
- Publisher: Quantum Books
- 4 Cambridge Center
- Cambridge, MA 02142
- Email: quanbook@world.std.com or aboba@world.std.com
- Phone: 617-494-5042
- FAX: 617-577-7282
-
-
- Additonal Resources and Mailing Lists:
-
- UUDOS is a general discussion on UUCP mail/news implementations
- under the DOS environment. Subscribe by sending a message
- with "subscribe uudos" (in lower case) to: infolist@pavnet.pcn.org
-
- For more info on Amiga UUCP send a subscribe request to:
- amiga-uucp-request@uunet.uu.net
-
-
- If you are new to USENET the following articles which are
- posted periodically in the newsgroup: news.answers
- (unless noted otherwise) may be useful:
-
- "What is Usenet?"
- Original-author: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Last-change: 2 Dec 91 by chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
-
- "A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
- Latest Version: 24 Feb 92 06:10:16 GMT
- Original-author: chuq@apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
- Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "USENET Software: History and Sources"
- Original-author: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
- Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "Hints on writing style for Usenet"
- Original-author: ofut@hubcap.clemson.edu (A. Jeff Offutt VI)
- Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "Rules for posting to Usenet"
- Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
- Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions [about USENET]"
- Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
- Last-change: 21 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "List of Active Newsgroups"
- Last-change: 21 Feb 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "How to Get Information about Networks"
- Original-author: Randall Atkinson <randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
- Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- "FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses"
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,soc.net-people,
- news.newusers.questions,news.answers
- Author: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Latest Version: 1 APR 92 06:00:28 GMT
-
- "Updated Internet Services List"
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.ads,comp.misc,biz.comp.services
- Author: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff)
- Date: 7 Apr 92 21:56:27 GMT
- Summary: A list of services available via the network
-
- "UNIX EMail Software - a Survey"
- Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.misc,news.answers
- Author: Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
- Update Frequency: every 2 weeks
- Summary: How to set up Email systems
-
- "alt.bbs.internet Frequently asked Questions (with answers)"
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
- Last-modified: 15 Mar 92 00:00:01 EST
-
- "How to find sources"
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted,news.answers
- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Date: 18 Mar 92 06:00:36 GMT
- Summary: How to find and retrieve source files
-
- "List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part I"
- Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Date: 11 Mar 92 06:01:07 GMT
-
- "Welcome to news.newusers.questions! (weekly posting)"
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.answers
- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Date: 18 Mar 92 06:01:07 GMT
-
-
- 2. Commercial UUCP Network Connections:
-
- Anterior Technology
- P.O. Box 1206
- Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206
- Tel: 415-328-5615
- FAX: 415-322-1753
- Email: info@radiomail.net
- Summary of services:
-
- Anterior Technology is a value-added computer communications
- services provider connected to BARRNet (Bay Area Regional Research
- Network) and to PSINet (Performance Systems International's
- network). Anterior is dedicated to full subscriber service and to
- innovation in communication and information services for the
- network community.
-
- Services:
- - Internet e-mail exchange via dial-up UUCP or Lotus cc:Mail
- - USENET news distribution
- - Help with the initial connection
- - Off-hours access to Anterior Technology support personnel
- - Internet FTP archive retrieval server (AutoFTP)
- - Internet domain registration
- - UUCP map registration
- - ClariNet news distribution
- - uAccess for Macintosh UUCP + Electronic Mail + USENET news
- - RadioMail one-way and two-way wireless e-mail
- - AgentSee Headlines Service (AHS) for alphanumeric pagers
- - SMTP e-mail relay and domain name service for SLIP or PPP
- sites connecting via BARRNet
- - NNTP (Network News Transfer) to IP-connected Internet sites
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- DMConnection
- 267 Cox St.
- Hudson, Ma. 01749
- TEL: 508-568-1618
- FAX: 508-562-1133
- email: dmc$info@dmc.com, dmc@dmc.com, info@dmc.com
- Summary of Services:
-
- DMConnection is a low cost alternative for UUCP mail exchange and
- news feeds. We currently sell UUCP and NEWS feeds to the general
- public and are currently negotiating a direct Internet connection.
- We specialize in Macintosh and VAX/VMS support of UUCP and NEWS. We
- provide several very large mail based file servers archiving most
- of the major source news groups. Information on the supported file
- servers can be retrieved by sending mail to fileserv@dmc.com with a
- body containing the single line:
- help
- With the advent of a direct Internet connection, we will also offer
- a mail based FTP server as well as interactive accounts for FTP,
- TELNET, and BBS support.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- HoloNet
- Information Access Technologies, Inc.
- 46 Shattuck Square, Suite 11
- Berkeley, CA 94704-1152
- Tel: 510-704-0160
- FAX: 510-704-8019
- BBS: 510-704-1058 (8N1)
- Email: info@holonet.net (automated reply)
- support@holonet.net
-
- Summary of services:
- Information Access Technologies, Inc. provides electronic
- communications services for both business and private use.
-
- * A local phone call in 850+ cities NATIONWIDE
- * UUCP Feeds for Internet E-mail and USENET
- * LAN E-mail (Macintosh, IBM PC, MHS, etc...)
- * BBSes (Amiga, Macintosh, IBM PC, UNIX, etc..)
- * UNIX Systems
- * HoloNet BBS - Menu Based Internet Access
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- MSEN, Inc.
- 628 Brooks Street
- Ann Arbor, MI 48103
-
- Phone: +1 313 741-1120
- email: info@msen.com
- Summary of services:
-
- MSEN was formed to bring reasonably priced internet connections to
- the general public. We currently sell dialup IP and UUCP
- mail/USENET news connections, and will be offering shell login/bbs
- accounts in 1Q92. We provide services to help people find
- resources on the Internet, either by connecting to our system and
- searching our well-indexed archives, or through our consulting
- services.
-
- Owen Medd <osm@msen.com>
- President, MSEN, Inc.
-
-
- Netcom
- 4000 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 209
- San Jose, CA 95117
- Tel: 408-554-UNIX
- FAX: 408-241-9145
- Email: info@netcom.com
- Summary of services:
-
- NETCOM provides a complete comprehensive dialup computer and
- communication service with over 100 Telebits available for
- services such as:
-
- o Dialup Shell access (telnet/ftp/irc)
- o News/Mail/domain services (flat fee)
- o UUCP services (no time charges)
- o LOW COST SLIP/PPP Internet connections
- o E-Mail (elm, mail, mush with username@machine formats)
- o Netnews (2 weeks of news and over 2000 groups)
- o News readers: rn, trn, nn, zn, tin, vnews, readnews, & more
- o Shell access (csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, bash)
- o Compilers (c, gcc, g++, lisp, prolog, clips)
- o Over 200 custom utilities
- o Access with a local phone call from many California cities.
-
-
- Performance Systems International Inc.
- 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, #1100
- Reston, VA 22091
- Tel: 800-827-7482
- 703-620-6651
- FAX: 703-620-4586
- Email: info@psi.com
- all-info@psi.com (for an automatic reply with
- a summary of services)
- Summary of services:
- Full range of dialup and leased line UUCP and TCP/IP services.
-
- UUNET Communications Services
- 3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570
- Falls Church, VA 22042
- Tel: 703 204 8000 or 800-4uunet4
- Fax: 703 204 8001
- Email: info@uunet.uu.net
- Summary of services:
- Dial-up and leased line UUCP and TCP/IP services,
- USENET news feeds, and Domain Name registration.
-
-
- See: "How to become a USENET site" for listings
- of more services. The "Recommended Reading" section
- has more information about this document.
-
- 3. UUCP PC Packages
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: DistNet
- Latest Version: 5.61R
- Last updated: ?
- Developer/Author: SKAN Communications Inc.
- P.O. Box 3041, Stn C
- Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4J3
- EMAIL: software@uuisis.isis.org
- TEL: (613) 729-0274 or (613) 722-4724
-
- News Support: Yes
- Price: ?
- Availability: From developer
- Support:
- DistNet is fully supported software. Technical Support is available five
- days a week, 9-5 Eastern Standard Time.
- Source code available: ?
- Platforms supported: PC w/DOS 3 or higher, 1MB Disk for software, 512K RAM
- Protocols supported: UUCP G used for data transfer (uucico), 3-7 windows
- Notable Features:
-
- DistNet Mail & NEWS - UUCP for DOS
-
- UUCP
-
- - Full support for Telebit Trailblazer (over 1300 cps transfers)
- - Permits definition of multiple UUCP neighbors for maximum connectivity
- - easy-to-use editor for writing custom dialing and login scripts
-
- Mail
-
- - User-friendly mail-user agent
- - Mail delivery and forwarding agents provide for flexible network topology
- - RFC 822 message header structure observed for mail
- - Domain Naming System and UUCP bang-path addressing fully supported
- - Auto-reply with optional reply-quoting
- - Aliasing, forward, Reply-To: and signature files supported
- - fully automated uuencode/uudecode and zoo for binary transfers via mail
- - Mailing list capability supported
-
- News
-
- - Capacity to handle 'Usenet' format conference material
- - News Reader and conference subscription administration utilities
- - Ability to Post, Reply-by-mail, and read conferences
- - User-specific newsrc files to track read/unread news
- - Inbound news searching for strings of interest
-
- Administration
-
- - multi-user capable
- - LAN smart (on some LANs)
- - full featured administrative utilities
- - compressed mail (zoomail) for use with other DistNet or waffle systems
- - configurable menu interface permitting flexible security
- - open design allows a large scope for customization
- - comprehensive installation and update scripts
- - extensive documentation
-
- Waffle
-
- - Compatible with Waffle version 1.64 and below
- - DistNet can be used as a console interface for Waffle
- - DistNet supports dialing out, but needs Waffle to answer incoming calls
-
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: EZ-Mail
- Latest Version: 2.01
- Last updated: 14-APR-1992
- Developer/Author: Cinetic Systems
- 4933 Verreau
- Montreal, Quebec
- Canada H1M 2C7
-
- Email: Cinetic@Speedy.CAM.ORG
- News Support: No
- Price: Shareware $30 to register
- Availability:
- File names: ezml201f.zip (Windows 3.0)
- ezml201s.zip (Windows 3.1)
-
- FTP: ftp.cica.indiana.edu
- garbo.uwasa.edu
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
-
- Compuserve: WINADV and/or IBMCOMM Forums
-
- Support:
- Email: Cinetic@Speedy.CAM.ORG and 71640,666 on Compuserve.
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC running Windows 3.x
- 80286 or better (80386 with 2Megs for Enhanced
- mode), Windows 3.x, a VGA or EGA adapter.
- Protocols supported: Ready to run with:
- - FSUUCP by FUBAR Systems.
- - PC-NFS by Sun Microsystems Inc.
- - PC/TCP by FTP Software Inc.
- - Pathway by the Wollongong Group.
- - UUPC/extended by Drew Derbyshire
- Notable Features:
- EZ-Mail 2.0. This is a full featured mail reader/composer that let
- you manage Internet mail under Windows. Works with popular UUCP
- packages for DOS and with PC-NFS (or equivalent) network software.
- It is fully configurable and support multi-user setups. Nice
- 3D-look easy-to-use user interface. It has a colorful toolbar and
- an informative status bar. Ready to work with UUPC/Extended, FSUUCP,
- PC-NFS (Sun MIcrosystems), PC/TCP (FTP Softwares) and Pathway (The
- Wollongong Group). You can also configure it to work with others.
-
- EZ-Mail's ancestor is WinMail. WinMail is no longer supported and all users
- of WinMail 1.0 to 1.1a should now use EZ-Mail.
- Reviews:
- -- Supplied by vendor:
- "EZ-Mail is a classy product, I now live by it. It is fast, easy, efficient,
- reliable, and as far as I am concerned, much better than commercially
- available products. In short, EZ-Mail is excellent and is the most
- profound Windows application to hit my desktop."
-
- -David J. Kovanen - Technical Editor, Procomm Magazine
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: FREDGATE
- Latest Version: 1.8K
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: J. W. Hance <joe@mgcind>
- CIS: 72617,2205
- Fido 1:231/270.0
- News Support:
- Price: Shareware - no fee for non-commercial use
- Availability:
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: Fido BBS on PC
- Protocols supported: UUCP (Uses the UUCICO program from Waffle)
- Notable Features:
- Mail & news/echos between FidoNet and UUCP
- Puts messages into .PKT files.
-
-
-
- Reviews:
- Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46
- (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222)
-
- -- Erik.Jacobson@p4.f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Erik Jacobson) writes:
- | The newest version of FredGate now is 19H.
- |
- | This is a version by the new author. The old author lost interest/didn't have
- | time to program FredGate so he let someone else take over.
- |
- | 19H is based on an older version of FredGate (Older than the newest one by Jo
- | Hance). At any rate, it seems to be much more stable. It actually puts the
- | correct "e-mailable" (is that a word?) address in gated EchoMail (Fido -->
- | UseNet). This is something no other version of FredGate did, and they all sho
- | have.
- |
- | Its got some better security options too.
- |
- | If you need help, I may be able to answer some questions about it. (I think
- | should be moved to alt.bbs only right? This isn't WAFFLE... )
- |
- | I might as well note one thing that isn't in the docs (mainly because I don't
- | believe the docs exist... just a small informational text file).
- |
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: FSUUCP
- Latest Version: 1.3 Release 1
- Last updated: March 1992
- Developer/Author: Christopher J. Ambler <chris@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Fubar Systems
- 1742 Lima Drive
- San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-6817
- Tel: 805-542-0336
- BBS: 805-54-FUBAR (FSBBS 2.0 beta prototype system)
- News Support: Batched, compressed (12-16 bit) B and C news
- Price: Shareware - $35
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- polyslo.calpoly.edu /pub
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>FSUU12R4.ZIP
- or from Boardwatch BBS: 303-973-4222
- or floppy via mail from developer ($35)
- Support:
- Mailing list - send request to:
- fsuucp-request@zeus.calpoly.edu
- Source code available: no
- Platforms supported: PC (2.0Mb disk space for programs)
- Protocols supported: 1-7 window g
- Notable Features:
- FSUUCP implements a UUCP/Usenet transfer protocol for MSDOS based machines.
- It comes complete with a uucico, uuxqt, rnews and rmail, mail, readnews,
- postnews, uuq, uusnap, and news utilities like batcher and expire, as well
- as other helpful utilities to maintain active files, news and mail rc files,
- and user mailboxes.
-
- Unlike other packages, FSUUCP implements these programmes as DOS commands
- directly. By putting the executables on your PATH, and setting an environment
- variable pointing to your configuration file, you can have UNIX mail and news
- on your MSDOS machine from the prompt, just like UNIX.
-
- Reviews:
- Boardwatch Magazine, November 1991, pg 21,22,23
- (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222)
-
- -- wolfgang@netcom.COM (Wolfgang Henke) Date: 14 Feb 92 23:50:19 GMT
- UUCP? I recommend FSUUCP from Chris Fubar. Its a complete package for
- dial-up UUCP from a DOS machine. More advanced versions are also
- available, but are not shareware. It took me about an hour to get UUCP up and
- running from my DOS mail machine.
-
- I met Chris at Uniforum. As I said, I recommend the product. It uses the
- UUCP -g protocol over most modems. 2400 bps is just fine, if you dont have
- long distance calls or large amounts of files, news and mail to transfer.
- ..
- In a sense, one could say this is a QWK door-reader package, which are so
- popular on DOS/PCBOARD BBSes, but based on UUCP.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: MUSH
- Latest Version: 7.1.0
- UNIX: 7.2.4
- DOS: 7.1.0
-
- Last updated: Apr 25, 1990
- Last updated: Feb 20, 1992
- Developer/Author:
- Dan Heller <argv@z-code.com>
- Bart Schaefer <schaefer@z-code.com>, <schaefer@cse.ogi.edu>
- News Support: no
- Price: Free
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>MUSH71.ZIP
- PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>MUSH7DOC.ZIP
- Support: Newsgroup comp.mail.mush
- Source code available: Yes
- Platforms supported: UNIX, PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- MUSH = Mail User's Shell
- This packages appears on a number of PC BBS systems. The
- documentation states that it has no PC support, however the
- author assures me that it does work on PCs.
-
- Reviews:
-
- -- From: "UNIX EMail Software - a Survey"
- Posted in the comp.mail.misc newsgroup February 17, 1992
-
- mush: author Dan Heller* <argv@z-code.com>
-
- The "Mail User's Shell" is a "shell" for mail users. That is, it
- has its own environment where you can configure not only the user
- interface, but the actual internal mechanisms. Internally, mush
- has a csh-like scripting language, altho it's not as powerful as
- csh. It has command-line aliases, file completion, if-else state-
- ments, command piping, and so on. Because you can build your own
- commands, you can virtually build your own library of email features.
-
- Mush has two tty-based interfaces: the standard tty-mode (ala BSD
- Mail or sys-v mailx) and the fullscreen/curses mode (ala vi, emacs
- or even Elm). You can set up key bindings that execute one or more
- mush commands, personalized commands or even UNIX commands. You
- can even emulate keyboard input with keyboard macros and mappings.
-
- Mush also has a SunView interface that is more powerful than Sun's
- Mailtool, yet backwards compatible with most versions. Most sunview
- users (if there are any left these days) prefer MushView over Mailtool.
-
- The current version of Mush is 7.2.3, last posted in comp.sources.misc
- volume 18 (with subsequent patches). All three interfaces are
- available in one runtime binary. Except for the MushView interface
- (which is only available on for suns), Mush is portable to everything
- that runs UNIX. There is also a DOS port available for PCs and can
- run on most 286 machines. An older version of Mush (6.5) can run on
- as little as 640 of RAM. (Mush-PC is typically used with UUPC.)
-
- The "next generation" of Mush is a commercial product called Z-Mail
- from Z-Code Software (mail argv@z-code.com for details). All aspects
- of Mush are retained, yet it has grown to be far more powerful. It
- runs under X windows with either a Motif or Open Look interface
- and also supports multi-media, user "functions" and a suite of new
- features.
-
- Third party documentation is available from O'Reilly in the book
- entitled "The Z-Mail Handbook" (by Hanna Nelson). This book not only
- covers Z-Mail, but Mush as well.
-
- Mush stores its messages in "mbox" format, or MMDF format if you're
- using MMDF as your MTA.
-
- The newsgroup comp.mail.mush is dedicated to it.
-
- [Note: Z-Mail is not related at all to Zmailer. Zmailer is a MTA]
-
- -- appel@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel)
- Subject:Question on DOS-MUSH
- Date: 4 Mar 92 03:34:14 GMT
- I've been trying to get the DOS-MUSH off of SIMTEL to work. It's a port of
- 7.1 for the IBM. Most of the stuff works fine, but some commands like ls and
- using mush to send mail result in Access Denied results, which is quite strange
- since my IBM has no concept of permissions. The access denied results are
- always for directories...I don't know if that means anything or not. Any
- ideas? I tried running it without the things that I assumed could be causing
- problems (namely DesqView and 4dos), but the results still came out exactly
- the same.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Package Name: NWREADER (NN280.ZOO)
- Latest Version: 2.80
- Last updated: September 29, 1992
- Developer/Author: Stefan Reck <sreck@rebox.in-berlin.de>
- Attilastr. 130
- W-1000 Berlin 42
- Germany
-
- News Support:
- Price: Public Domain
- Availability:
- Via mail-server@giraffe.in-berlin.de Include the line:
- GET MODEM/WAFFLE/NN280.ZOO
- Support:
- Mailing list - send a message to: mail-server@giraffe.in-berlin.de
- Include the following command in the body of the message:
- subscribe nn-rwmail-news
- or email to sreck@rebox.in-berlin.de
-
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- NWREADER is a powerful MSDOS based news reader. It provides all
- the usual news reader features, plus writing uuencoded news to
- files, sending binary files as news and additional commands. It
- is designed to work with any RFC822-compliant news system that
- runs under MSDOS and Waffle.
-
- Features:
- ---------
-
- News reader commands ( READ NEWS, POST NEWS, etc.)
- Binary file support commands ( Write files as BIN, post binaries)
- Set filter for displayed news
- Fully configurable
- Subscribe and unsubscribe to news groups
-
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Package Name: PCB/Usenet Gateway
- Latest Version:
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: Mark "Sparky" Herring
- (Author of QMail Deluxe)
- News Support: Yes
- Price: $3000
- Availability: Michael MacDonald
- Canada Remote Systems
- 1331 Crestline Drive, Unit D
- Mississauga, Ontario
- Canada L4W-2P9
- TEL: 800-415-7562
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PC Board BBS on PC
- Protocols supported: UUCP (Uses the UUCICO program from Waffle)
- Notable Features:
- Mail & news/echos between PCBoard and UUCP
- Allow PCBOARD users to use QMAIL Deluxe to read and answer
- Internet mail news offline.
- QMAIL Deluxe is available from the QMAIL support BBS: 901-382-5583
- Reviews:
- Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46
- (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222)
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: PCElm
- Latest Version: 3.01
- Last updated: January 1, 1992
- Developer/Author: Wolfgang Siebeck <siebeck@infoac.rmi.de>
- P.O.Box 15 26
- D-W-5100 Aachen
- FAX: +49+241+47997-77
- News Support: No
- Price:
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, directory
- pd1:<msdos.ka9q-tcpip> file name: PCELM301.ZIP
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- Mail user agent. Works with: KA9Q NOS, UUPC or Waffle
-
- Quoting from the documentation:
-
- PCElm is a mail user agent (UA) with a user interface closely
- modeled after the USENET ELM. To avoid confusion, we would like to
- mention that PCElm and USENET ELM are *not* related.
-
- PCElm is intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for BM when
- using the KA9Q NOS package or as a replacement for mail.exe when
- using UUPC. It can also be used for other mail systems, as all relevant
- things for compatibility with MTA's (Message Transfer Agents) are
- configurable.
-
- Highlights:
- PCElm has a nice user interface, with easy to learn and easy to use
- commands. UN*X users will already be familiar with the more important
- commands. It can be made to work with just about every mail system
- there is for PC's, as PCElm makes no assumptions at all about the
- underlying network software. Finally, PCElm is multilingual; you can
- make all messages appear in your favorite language. Message files
- for English and German currently exist.
-
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: PCNews
- Latest Version: 123beta
- Last updated: February 19, 1992
- Developer/Author: Andrew Lindh <lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu>
- News Support: Yes
- Price:
- Availability:
- PCNews is on ftp.hartford.edu (/pub/pcnews/pcn120.zip)
- Support:
- USENET News group: alt.pcnews
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PCs running UUCP/Extended
- Protocols supported: see UUCP/Extended
- Notable Features:
-
- PCNews is a full USENET News package.
-
- Quoting from the documentation:
-
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- This guide covers the system operations except the user
- interface. It will give you a basic idea on how to setup and
- manage a USENet News (or NetNews) connection. It does not cover
- UUCP (from the UUPC program), what news is, or how to obtain a
- news connection. It also does not cover rules or ethics of
- NetNews. PCNews is a full news system. It contains a full user
- interface for reading and posting news. It also contains full
- programs for deleting news by date or usage. The PCNews package
- is also a full news server to send news feeds to other systems.
- PCNews has also successfully been used in multi-user and multi-
- workstation (Networked) environments. The whole PCNews package is
- similar to the B-News found on UNIX systems. PCNews is only for
- the DOS environment, if you wish to use a NetNews package under
- UNIX, this is not it. You would be better off with B-News 2.11 or
- C-News.
- Reviews:
- --John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> in News posting of 4-FEB-1992:
- "This is a very nice news package for MS-DOS. It includes full
- control message processing (the only one I know of on DOS) and other
- nice features. You need uupc-extended 1.11r to use this.
- This package is still in beta, but it seems pretty solid."
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: PMAIL/Pegasus Mail
- Latest Version: v2.3 (R1)
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: David Harris
- Consultant
- Computing Services Centre
- University of Otago
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- TEL: (+64) 3-4798598
- FAX: (+64) 3-4798577
- Email: david@otago.ac.nz
- News Support: No
- Price: $0
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- risc.ua.edu /pub/network/pegasus/pmail231.exe
- omnigate.clarkson.edu /pub/pmail/pmail231.exe
- splicer.cba.hawaii.edu /files/pegasus
-
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported: Novell or UUCP via Waffle or user defined gateway
- Notable Features:
- Pmail 2.3 is the legendary "standalone" Pmail: it can run without NetWare,
- and has limited support for non-NetWare LANs. A sample user-defined gateway
- which interfaces Pmail to Waffle 1.6x for uucp mail is included in the
- distribution archive, as is comprehensive documentation on user-defined
- gateways. An Asynch mail gateway will be released for 2.3 in the next few
- weeks.
-
- Changes from previous versions:
- * User-defined gateway support has been heavily improved, and a quite
- comprehensive guide is included, along with a sample gateway, both
- source and executable to interface to Waffle.
- Reviews:
- -- John Ho hho@ALUDRA.USC.EDU in comp.bbs.waffle 29-apr-1992
- New version of Pegasus mail has just been release, and I have tested with
- Novell 386 v3.11 and Waffle 1.64.. Neat.. It runs perfect..
- Pmail can call uucico directly or read directly from the user directory..
- You have a choice of either login waffle and read mail or using Pmail
- which has a great user interface (color, fullscreen) etc, like NOvell..
- Until Chrome come out, I'll have to settle with Pmail..
- :-)
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: RAMNET
- Latest Version:
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: Ross Greenberg
- Software Concepts Design
- 594 Third Ave.
- New York, NY 10016
- TEL: 212-889-6431
- FAX: 212-889-9730
- News Support:
- Price: Commercial - < $200
- Availability: Developer
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- Runs as a TSR. Sends and receives email using UUCP.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: READMAIL
- Latest Version: 4.01
- Last updated: July 4, 1991
- Developer/Author: Jeroen Schipper <jschippe@cs.ruu.nl>
- Grunoplantsoen 17
- 3981 GS Bunnik
- The Netherlands
- Tel. +(31)3405-61733
-
- Internet: jschippe@cs.ruu.nl
- BBS: Dutch BBS 'Julliet'
- Fido net/node 2:286/315
- (username Jeroen Schipper)
-
- News Support:
- Price: Free
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.TXTUTL>RMAIL401.ZIP
-
- Source code available: Unknown - Written in Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- A mail reader -- Cannot be used to send mail!
- Handles a max of 500 messages at a time if there is enough memory.
- Can read messages in the following formats:
- UNIX, EchoMail, Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQ lists, MBBS, MMDF mail,
- and UseNet messages
- Allow the user to add the ability to read new mail formats via
- a simple parameter file.
- Tracks message status (read, selected, deleted).
- Context sensitive help.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: RWMAIL (RWM218.ZOO)
- Latest Version: 2.18
- Last updated: September 29, 1992
- Developer/Author: Stefan Reck <sreck@rebox.in-berlin.de>
- Attilastr. 130
- W-1000 Berlin 42
- Germany
-
- News Support:
- Price: Public Domain
- Availability:
- Via mail-server@giraffe.in-berlin.de Include the line:
- GET MODEM/WAFFLE/NN280.ZOO
- Support:
- Mailing list - send a message to: mail-server@giraffe.in-berlin.de
- Include the following command in the body of the message:
- subscribe nn-rwmail-news
- or email to sreck@rebox.in-berlin.de
-
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- RWMAIL is a powerful MSDOS based mail reader. It provides all
- the usual mail reader features, plus writing uuencoded mails to
- files, sending binary files as mail and additional commands. It
- is designed to work with mail system that runs under MSDOS
- and Waffle.
-
- Features:
- ---------
-
- mail reader commands ( READ MAIL, POST NEWS, etc.)
- Binary file support commands ( Write files as BIN, post binaries)
- Fully configurable
- multi folder manager
-
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: RUSNEWS
- Latest Version: 0.9
- Last updated: ???
- Developer/Author: Russell Schulz - russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
-
- News Support: yes
- Price: ??
- Availability:
- FTP
- halcyon.com:/pub/waffle/news/rusn-09.zip
- simtel20:PD:<MSDOS.WAFFLE>RUSN-09.ZIP
-
- Support:
- None mentioned but try the author.
-
- Source code available: ??
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
-
- Threaded newsreader with killfiles and crosspost filtering for ms-dos waffle.
- (see also trived07.zip in <msdos.editor> section for a companion editor)
-
- with v0.9, rusnews can be run over the phone lines. when run over the
- phone lines, it defaults to a non-trusted mode (which can be overridden
- by the command line (using different extern entries)) which does not
- allow users to edit articles or change their From: lines.
-
- Additional Redeeming Features
- -----------------------------
-
- - compatible with waffle - no separate database or maintenance required
- - hit `k' while reading to kill that subject or author, either in that
- group or in all groups
- - automatic filtering of crossposts - any article which is crossposted
- will only be shown if the group you're reading is the first one in your
- join file to which it was posted.
- - can be used over a phone line
-
- Limitations
- -----------
-
- quite a few - listed in start of rusnews.pas
-
- the one that will seem to concern most users will be lack of posting
- capability. I send out far more email than postings, and I don't miss
- it much yet. I personally believe this tends to keep the quality of
- net postings higher, since flamage is confined to the one person to
- whom you're sending mail, as opposed to being broadcast to the world.
- maybe I just flame too often. :-)
-
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: SMAIL
- Latest Version: smail 2.5, PC Release 1.0 beta
- Last updated: April 2, 1990
- Developer/Author: Stephen C. Trier
- News Support: No
- Price: Free?
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>SMAILBIN.ZIP
- PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>SMAILSRC.ZIP
- Support:
- Source code available: Yes - Turbo C 2.0
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- A port of the UNIX smail program to the PC - works with MUSH.
- Appears that no updates have been made since 1990.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: SNEWS
- Latest Version: 1.12 (but see notes below for new version in alpha)
- Last updated: 10-Nov-1991
- Developer/Author: John McCombs <john@ahuriri.gen.nz>
- Michael Studte <michael@izumi.dialix.oz.au>
- News Support: Yes
- Price: Free - distributed under GNU Public License
- Availability: Posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc in 4 parts
- Date: 19 Mar 92 20:21:37 GMT
- Posting-number: Volume 17, Issue 102
- Archive-names: snews112/part01 .. snews112/part04
- Support: "Yes, but only after you've tried hard yourself"
- Source code available: Yes - C source included in distribution
- Platforms supported: PCs running UUPC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- 'Simple NEWS' is an news add-on for UUPC. It is intended for use as a
- leaf node and offers:
- - Threaded news reading. This allows you to be much more
- selective about what you read, enabling you to cover many more
- newsgroups.
- - The when a cross-posted article is read the news-reader marks all
- the other instances of the article as read too.
- - Separate rc files are kept for each user, which record the individual
- articles that you have seen. This is in contrast to some readers
- which simply record the highest article number read. The user is
- defined, as for mail users, in the file pointed to by the UUPCUSRRC
- environment variable.
- - Usual range of response facilities: follow-up news, reply by mail,
- forward by mail, save article/thread to disk.
- - Articles are now stored in one file per newsgroup, rather than
- one file per article. This results in an enormous saving (up to 3:1)
- in disk space on disks with with a default cluster size of 4kb per
- cluster.
- - Processing of batched/compressed news. Unbatched and uncompressed
- are not processed. Control messages are not processed.
- - Posting - Posts are unbatched and uncompressed. You can only post
- to your 'mailserv'. You cannot feed another site. Posting can only
- be done from within the news reader SNEWS. If you are looking for
- something to feed other sites why not try Waffle?
- - 'Received date' oriented expire to maintain the news database.
-
- Msg from Author - 4-May-1992
- Firstly there is a new release which fixes many of the deficiencies in
- version 1.12, and cleans up/replaces much crufty code. This release has
- been prepared by a group of Australians, coordinated by Michael Studte
- <michael@izumi.dialix.oz.au>.
-
- Reviews:
- -- Steve Kohlenberger <presoft!Steve@uunet.uu.net> review with posting
- SNEWS is a simple news program to be compatible with the UUCP package
- called UUPC. I have been happily using it for a few months now and
- watched it improve. It handles all my basic needs and I am
- comfortable with it. It also saves a lot of disk space because all
- the messages for one message group are saved in one file and a
- corresponding index file. That literally cut my disk space usage
- down to less than half of what it was. Its relatively fast and quite
- easy to install and use.
- I can recommend it for anyone with a recent copy of UUPC, some
- version of DOS, and a news feed.
-
- -- Russ Nelson <cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu!nelson> on uupc-info list 9-APR-1992
- Subj: Simple News works great.
- I'm using Simple News to read news now. Works great, although the code
- is a bit crufty in spots. However, it works quite nicely, and was very
- easy to install.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: UFGATE
- Latest Version: 1.03
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: Tim Pozar
- Late Night Software
- 671 28th Street
- San Francisco, CA 94131
- TEL: 415-695-7727
- FAX: 415-695-0759
- News Support: Some
- Price: Shareware - $35 non-commercial $195 commercial/corporate/govt.
- Availability:
- Late Night Software
-
- Anonymous FTP from:
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.FIDO>UFG_103.ZIP
-
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: Fido BBS on PC
- Protocols supported: UUCP
- Notable Features:
- Mail & news/echos between FidoNet and UUCP
- Puts messages into .MSG files.
- Reviews:
- Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46
- (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222)
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: UGATE
- Latest Version:
- Last updated: 13 January 1992
- Developer/Author: John Coonrod <cdp.igc.org!thp!jc>
- The Hunger Project
- One Madison Avenue
- New York, NY 10010 USA
-
- MCI: JCoonrod
- MHS: jc@thp hvia NHUB or CSERVE (Compuserve)
- UUCP/Internet: cdp.igc.org!thp!jc
- Compuserve: 76660,16
- Dialcom: 31060:MCI209
- Fax: 212-532-9785
-
- News Support: No
- Price: Shareware - $200 to Hunger Project
- Availability: Author
- Support: email
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: Novell LAN's running MHS software
- Protocols supported: UUCP "g"
- Notable Features:
- Links a PC MHS based email packages to UUCP email networks.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: UULINK
- Latest Version:
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
- Vortex Technology
- P.O. Box 1323
- Topanga, CA 90290-1323
- 310-455-9300
- FAX: 310-455-2364
- News Support: Limited
- Price: Commercial - $335
- Availability: Floppies from Vortex Technology
- Support: Phone
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC 256K Memory, Hard disk recommended but not
- required, MS-DOS 2.0 and later
- Protocols supported: UUCP "g"
- Notable Features:
- Multiple mail users on same PC (not simultaneously)
- Max of approximately 320 (next version to support 9999) messages
- per each processed mail folder. No limit to the number of messages
- which may be received in a user mailbox.
- Automatic scheduling, RFC-822 headers, mail route through
- to other sites, thousands of copies sold.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: uuPCB
- Latest Version: in Beta Test as of 1/1/92
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: Ed Hopper <ed.hopper@ehbbs.hou.tx.us>
- 3403 Jacquelyn
- Pearland, TX 77581
- TEL: 713-997-9834
- BBS: 713-997-7575
- News Support: Yes
- Price: $49 to $199 depending on number of lines supported on PC Board system
- Availability: Author's BBS - see above
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: PC Board BBS on PC
- Protocols supported: UUCP
- Notable Features:
- Mail & news/echos between PCBoard and UUCP
- Reviews:
- Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46-47
- (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222)
-
- -- tim.meade@conex.uucp (Tim Meade)
- Subject:PCBOARD AND USENET
- Date: 22 Feb 92 17:36:00 GMT
- -> There's a new program called uuPCB which allows a usenet-pcboard link
- -> without having to go through any other programs.
- ->
- And it works great! We are using it here and have full USENET access
- directly into the PCB conference base. Offline Mail doors and readers
- work fine with USENET.
-
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: UUPC/Extended
- Latest Version: 1.11q
- Last updated: December 8, 1991
- Developer/Author: Drew Derbyshire
- Email: help@kew.com
- Kendra Electronic Wonderworks
- Post Office Box 132
- Arlington, MA 02174-0002
-
- News Support: Not included (in development) but see SNEWS and PCNews
- Price: Shareware - $20 to $50
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- sun.soe.clarkson.edu pub/uupc
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>UUPC*.*
- Automated mail server running on Clarkson University's
- sun.soe.clarkson.edu
- Clarkson University BBS
- The Kermit server running on kewgate, Kendra Electronic
- Wonderworks's file server
- Anonymous UUCP from kewgate
- BIX
- CompuServe
- Ordering floppies by mail from Crynwr Software
- Support:
- Listserv Mailing list:
- email to: "listserv@sun.soe.clarkson.edu"
- body: "add your_email_address uupc-info"
- and
- Email to help@kew.com
- Source code available: Yes - Included in distribution (Mostly C)
- Platforms supported: MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Desqview, OS/2
- Protocols supported: UUCP "g"
- Notable Features:
- Supports UUPOLL, UUSTAT, aliases, multiple hosts, RFC-822 headers,
- signature blocks, modem configuration files, Kanji character set, etc.
-
- Can handle news with add on software (SNEWS and PCNews).
-
- May support Internet MIME MultiMedia Mail soon.
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: V-MailServer
- Latest Version: 1.20
- Last updated: March 10, 1992
- Developer/Author: Rick Vandenberg <rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Vandenberg Systems Research
- # 103 - 1016 West 12th Avenue
- Vancouver, BC
- V6H 1L3
-
- For info on V-MailServer send a blank message to
- vmail-info-request@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca
- News Support:
- Price: $39 (Canadian), $30 US
- Availability:
- Via mail-server@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca. Include the line:
- GET VMS120.ZIP
- Support:
- Mailing list - send a message to: mail-server@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca
- Include the following command in the body of the message:
- subscribe vmail-l
- or email to rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca
-
- A series of application notes is also being created. Send the
- command 'GET appnotes/index' to mail-server@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca for
- a list of available notes.
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- V-MailServer is a powerful MSDOS based mail server. It provides all
- the usual file server features, plus public and private mailing
- lists, automatic file requests, and additional commands. It is
- designed to work with any RFC822-compliant mail system that runs
- under MSDOS.
-
- Features:
- ---------
-
- File Server commands ( /GET, SEND, etc )
- Mailing List Server commands ( SUBSCRIBE, SIGNOFF, REVIEW )
- Automatic file sending features
- Password capability
- Fully configurable
- Definable daily and per message limits
- Full request logging
-
- For info on V-MailServer send a blank message to
- vmail-info-request@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca
- Reviews:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Package Name: WAFFLE
- Latest Version: v1.65
- Last updated: 02 aug 92
- Developer/Author: Thomas E Dell <dell@vox.darkside.com (...vox!dell)>
- Darkside International
- Post Office Box 4436
- Mountain View CA 94040-0436
- News Support: Yes - BBS style
- Price: Shareware
- MSDOS: $30 for executable, $120 for source code
- UNIX: $120 source only no binaries available
- Availability:
- o By X,Y,ZMODEM download
- +1 408 245 SPAM (2400 baud), in /files/waffle/wafxxx.zip
-
- o By Anonymous FTP
- simtel20.army.mil PD1:<MSDOS.WAFFLE>WAFxxx.ZIP
- wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/msdos/waffle/wafxxx.zip
- wiretap.spies.com /waffle/wafxxx.zip
- halcyon.com /pub/waffle/wafxxx.zip
-
- o By postal mail
- Support:
- Email: root@vox.darkside.com
- Usenet Newsgroup: comp.bbs.waffle
- Source code available: Yes
- Platforms supported:
- MS-DOS
- A/UX Apple Macintosh Unix
- BSD 4.3 Berkeley Unix
- HP/UX Hewlett Packard HP/UX
- NeXT NeXT OS
- Sun OS Sun Microsystems SunOS
- Ultrix DEC Ultrix
- Wicat Sys V Wicat's System V
- Xenix SCO Xenix, 286 and 386 flavors
- 386/ix Interactive Systems
-
- Protocols supported: UUCP "g", batched and compressed news feeds
- Notable Features:
- Support mail and news. Includes DOS equivalents of:
- UUX, UUQ, UUCP, RMAIL, RNEWS and a news and mail reader.
- Can be used as a single-user UUCP node or a BBS
- with email, editor, transfer section, security,
- doors, cookies, etc. A scheduler can execute
- DOS commands as well as invoke UUCP tasks.
- Supports FOSSIL comm drivers in addition to
- its own interrupt package.
-
- Most of the time it is fairly easy (usually takes
- us an hour) to port to other flavors of Unix.
-
- Reviews:
- -- Vince Skahan <vince@atc.boeing.com> in comp.mail.uucp 18-MAR-1992
-
- >Would someone please send me info on the versions of uucp which are
- >available for MS-DOS machines, including info on how to acquire copies of
- >them. Thanks.
-
- There are 3 good ones currently.
-
- Waffle has full USENET news/mail/uucp in addition to being an actual
- dial-in/dial-out BBS. Available on SIMTEL20 in pd1:<msdos.waffle>
- Shareware $30.00
-
- UUPC/Extended has uucp/mail (no USENET unless you use one of the
- add-in packages like 'snews'). Available in pd1:<msdos.uucp>
- Totally free.
-
- FSUUCP has news/mail but I'm not sure if it has uucp or not.
- Available in pd1:<msdos.uucp>, shareware $35.00 or so.
-
- I've run them all and would recommend Waffle over the others
- by a wide margin, especially if you want to have your system
- up all the time 'answering the phone'. It also has a wonderful
- cron facility so you can automate your system dialing out, etc.
- to save phone $$$ by calling at night. There's really nothing that
- it can't do very reliably and simply.
-
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- Package Name: WafMail
- Latest Version: 1.0
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author:
- News Support: Yes
- Price:
- Availability:
- WLM v1.0 for Waffle 1.64 on COW Pastures BBS 404-421-0764
- Directory: WAFFLE Filename: WAFM10.ZIP
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported:
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- Offline QWK mail and news reader for Waffle. Handles both
- QWK and RNEWS packets.
- Reviews:
-
- --John K. <minotaur@labyrnth.via.mind.org> in alt.bbs.waffle 25-MAR-1992
- Subject:Re: QWK mail for DOS Waffle
- Get WafMail, the Waffle Offline Mail system. It will not only provide you and
- your users with QWK, but with straight text and Rnews packets as well. My
- users LOVE it.
-
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- Package Name: WWCP
- Latest Version: 1.20
- Last updated: 5/1/92
- Developer/Author: Anthony W. Hursh
- email: tsawh@acad1.alaska.edu
- WWIVnet: 1@500
- News Support: Yes
- Price: Shareware - Registration $25
- Availability:
- The latest version of WWCP will always be available on The Fredbox
- (907) 344-8437 (@502 WWIVnet), Someplace Else BBS (907) 338-1612
- (@9702 WWIVnet), Virtual Reality (907) 345-7728 (@9704 WWIVnet).
-
- WWCP is also available by email. The most recent version can be retrieved
- by sending mail to file-request%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu, with the message
-
- /GET wwcp/wwcp120.arj
-
- Do not include a signature, unless you really want to see the help
- file. The /GET *is* case-sensitive, unfortunately.
- WWCP should be uploaded to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil very soon, for
- those who would rather retrieve the package by FTP.
-
- Support: Author available through email, also a WWIV netsub (similar to
- a newsgroup).
- Source code available: No
- Platforms supported: PC running Waffle
- Protocols supported: XYZmodem and HS/Link for the WWIVnet connect
- Notable Features:
- The WWCP package allows you to exchange email between the WWIVnet
- and the Waffle BBS (and thus, Usenet/Internet if the Waffle system is
- connected). WWIV netsubs can be carrried as newsgroups on the Waffle
- system and vice-versa. The interface is totally invisible to the user. No
- kludges (such as manually adding special address lines to email or posts)
- are necessary. All routing is fully automatic.
-
- WWCP runs on the Waffle system. No special setup is necessary
- for the WWIVnet connect. As far as WWIVnet can tell, the Waffle system
- looks like a normal WWIVnet node. WWCP is shareware with a $25
- registration fee.
-
- Reviews:
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-
- Package Name: ZMAIL
- Latest Version: UNIX shipping, MS-DOS version in development
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author:
- Dan Heller <argv@z-code.com>
- News Support:
- Price:
- Availability: contact developer
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: UNIX, PC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
-
- ZMAIL's ancestor is MUSH. They share the same author.
-
- The MS-DOS version of Z-Mail can run in 16 bit real mode
- with a tty or full-screen (curses) interface. A GUI interface
- will also be available when DESQView/X is appears.
- It will interface to SMTP or UUCP MS-DOS transports.
-
- "The Z-Mail Handbook" (by Hanna Nelson) is available from O'Reilly.
- It covers Z-Mail and Mush.
-
- Reviews:
- "Email for Power Users", David Fieldler, BYTE December 1991 pg 295-298
-
-
- 4. UUCP MAC Packages
-
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-
- Package Name: Fernmail
- Latest Version: 1.1
- Last updated: 2/11/92
- Developer/Author: Dave Platt Snulbug Software <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us>
- News Support: limited - can post (define headers and execute rnews command)
- but not read.
- Price: Shareware - $20
- Availability:
- contact author for latest version
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- Support: email to author
- Source code available: no
- Platforms supported: MAC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- A Mac-based mail reader/poster. Supports multiple users, not simultaneously.
- Can read mail transported by UUPC, Mac/Gnuucp, and UUMac.
- Reviews:
-
- -- David <audit036@spacm1.spac.spc.com>
- "It's a real snazzy tool, allowing multiple mailboxes open concurrently,
- encoding & decoding on the fly, and multiple windows."
-
-
- --Paul Robichaux <robichau@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> email of: January 22, 1992
- "I use it and love it. Best non-commercial Mac RFC822 reader
- I've seen."
-
- -- .Boyd Ostroff <ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu> from email of: January 22, 1992
- "Excellent all around. Very easy to use. MultiFinder compatible. My 9 year
- old daughter uses it! Has built-in support for BinHexing/de-BinHexing binary
- files automatically."
-
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-
- Package Name: Mac/Gnuucp
- Latest Version:
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author:
- News Support:
- Price:
- Availability:
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- rascal.ics.utexas.edu
- Support:
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: MAC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- Has a HyperCard-based user interface.
- Reviews:
- -- .Boyd Ostroff <ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu> from email of: January 22, 1992
- "A nice try but the throughput is extremely poor. In testing it I could
- not get much better than 100 cps even with a 9600 baud direct connection.
- UUPC is much better (until a rewrite of gnuucp comes along)."
-
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- Package Name: uAccess
- Latest Version: 1.5
- Last updated:
- Developer/Author: ICE Engineering <time@ice.com>
- 8840 Main Street
- Whitmore Lake, MI 48189
- Tel: 313-449-8288
- News Support: Yes
- Price:
- Availability:
- US Customers:
- Griffin Software (213) 541-6414
- Anterior Technologies (415) 328-5615
- United Kingdom Customers:
- Network Analysis Ltd (+44) 203 419996
- Call ICE for the latest list of distributors and dealers.
- Support: from ICE
- Source code available:
- Platforms supported: MAC
- System Requirements:
- o Minimum: Macintosh Plus 1MB RAM, Hard Disk, Modem
- o Ideal: Macintosh IIcx 4MB RAM, 80MB Hard Disk, Telebit modem
- Protocols supported: G with 7 frame windows, call in and out
- Notable Features:
- uAccess provides a complete environment for reading electronic mail and
- Usenet news transported via the UUCP protocol. uAccess implements the UUCP
- communications protocol using Apple's new Communications Toolbox, allowing
- you to use many connections such as serial, modem, AppleTalk, MacTCP,
- MacISDN, and MacX.25, as well as any future connection tool created by
- third party vendors. uAccess provides a builtin terminal emulator which
- provides vt100 emulation, among others, and file transfer capability
- including MacBinary XMODEM. Finally, uAccess provides a complete Macintosh
- interface to these services, as well as the administrative tasks that are
- normally prohibitive in most UUCP implementations.
-
- * supports compressed batched news
-
- * a plethora of file conversion routines including:
- MacBinary, Binhex, UUEncode/UUDecode, Decompress, split/join, etc...
-
- * XCMD capability much like HyperCard with hooks so you can
- write your own code to process incoming mail and news
-
- * Version 2.0 will have both "tcl" the scripting language out of
- Berkley, AND Apple Events including "DoScript"
-
- * Full Mail support with MAC style interface
-
- * Full News support with MAC style interface
-
- * cron-like background tasks
-
- * custom scripting ability for special communications needs
-
- Reviews:
-
- -- Dick Munroe <munroe@dmc.com> from email of: January 21, 1992
- "A full featured mail and news implementation, fast, robust and it can even act
- as a server if you want it to."
-
- -- cusozim@cusozim.UUCP (CUSO Zimbabwe)
- "I am one happy guy. The file transfer went without a hitch. Un-binhexing,
- extraction and installation were flawless. Got through to isishq in
- Ottawa first try."
-
- -- daveh@cvedc.uucp (Dave Heinen)
- "Subject: Re: UUCP/Usenet for Mac
- Conclusion:
- if your are serious about uucp,mail/netnews for the mac
- and you want to use your machine during transfers
- you need to get uAccess. It's worth the price.
-
- -- glenn%gla-aux.uucp@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu (Glenn Austin)
- "Subject: Re: Mac/gnuucp 4.3?
- Date: 1 Jun 91 01:24:15 GMT
- In article <1CE00001...>, stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes:
- > Opinion Alert: I've used UUPC on the Mac and PC, dicked around with GNU's,
- > looked at TCP front ends.. on and on and on... nothing comes close..
- > not even an ant within the shadow of uAccess as far as power and usability
- > are concerned.. and if ICE won't blow uAccess's horn on the net, then
- > I will! I use it daily. It is THE best thing out there..
- I agree! In fact, it is FASTER than A/UX!!! (570 cps for A/UX vs. 685
- cps for uAccess on a V.32 9600 baud link)."
-
- -- mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel)
- "Subject: Re: Mac news/mail software
- I've been extremely happy with uAccess. Even though it is a bit expensive, it
- has been one of the few Email packages which I don't find myself cursing for
- the kludgy way it does things. If you seriously need uucp mail, and you can't
- afford to have something make your machine something you're afraid to touch,
- it's probably worth it. If I could afford to use it as my network email system,
- I probably would recommend it over MS Mail/QuickMail."
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-
- Package Name: UUPC - MAC
- Latest Version: UUPC 3.0
- Last updated: 2/10/92
- Developer/Author: Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us>
- News Support:
- Limited. It will spool incoming news articles or batches for offline
- processing, but doesn't include the software to do said processing...
- I'm hoping somebody will write some. It will transmit outbound news
- jobs if another program sets them up (e.g. Fernmail can post outbound
- news articles).
- Price: Freeware
- Availability:
- Anonymous FTP from:
- ftp.uu.net ~/communications/uupc
- SUMEX
- RASCAL
- or contact author
- Support: None promised.
- Source code available: Yes... from author or on FTP.UU.NET, and elsewhere.
- Platforms supported: MAC
- Protocols supported:
- Notable Features:
- A Mac port of UUPC; includes the UUPC/Extended 'g' protocol code.
- Also supports the 'f' protocol.
-
- Offers Mac-style interface with menus and windows.
- MultiFinder compatible. Can run in the background and be driven by a
- crontab-style schedule file. Supports file transfer & anonymous uucp
- from a public directory.
- Reviews:
-
- -- .Boyd Ostroff <ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu> from email of: January 22, 1992
- "Excellent re-write of the old version. I have been beta testing for several
- months. Dave has really done a nice job here. The old, confusing command
- line interface is gone. You can set it up to poll systems automatically in
- the background (mine calls my unix box every hour), it can accept incoming
- calls. Once you get it properly setup you can basically just forget about
- it and let it do its thing automatically in the background."
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