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- From: david J. Knapke 317/283-9420
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- Subject: Mail User agents
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 04:20:56 GMT
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- We finally making efforts (and aparently have money too, wow) to have a
- complete mail solution. We have both Macs and IBM compatibles on people's
- desk, very few VTs. We would like a mail system that generally stores mail
- on a host, getting people to backup is not fun around here.
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- I have looked at a couple of packages, but have not found the product that
- fits the mold here just yet. Believe it or not, talking with Digital,
- MailWorks (A1 mail) seems to be most intersting to us. A couple of questions
- that the Rep couldn't answer though, what transports/protocals can you run
- with the MailWorks client (both environments)??
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- We also looked at QuickMail, yuuuuk!
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- cc:Mail looked pretty good as well, but we are not sure how we are going to
- serve it to close to 400 Macs. On the DOS side, its easy, we have Novell
- servers. There has been discussion of the cc:Mail channel in PMDF and how
- to push mail back and forth, that sounds good but a little ruff as far as
- the particulars of pushing the files back and forth. Ned mentions MIME
- translation into cc:Mail, but said there were problems with multi-part mail
- (if I recall correclty). That confuses me since cc:Mail had the ability to
- have multiple enclosures, or am I missing something??
-
- Other considerations, Ithink Eudora is out for spoofing reasons. I'm looking
- at MicroSoft Mail, which is not impressive if you want to have good clients for
- both platforms. They are basically two different products that have a
- gateway that runs betweent them, pretty klunky looking so far.
-
- Anything else someone could suggest? I would certainly appreciate any
- info to help us out.
-
- I wonder if this will divert peoples attention away from fueding??
- (Sorry, I couldn't resist. I think that we are lucky to have, as
- someone else pointed out, a vender that is sincerely concerned about
- there niche product and standards that revolve around it.)
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- David J. Knapke Knapke@ButlerU.BITNET
- Computer Center Assistant Director
- Butler University Information Resources
- Indianapolis, IN 46208 (317) 283-9420
- USA Fax: (317) 283-9740
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