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- From: kvc@summer.innosoft.com (Kevin V. Carosso)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Mail User agents
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:13:13 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- I think A1MAIL is probably your best bet here. All of the traditional PC based
- solutions are not going to use the VAX as a mail server. They can use the VAX
- as a gateway (e.g. something like PMDF's cc:Mail channel) but you're going to
- have to set up and run PC based post offices, as well as dedicated PC's for
- gateways. PMDF can help somewhat in tying them together, but you will be managing
- PC servers, PC post-offices, and PC gateways, requiring multiple single-tasking
- dedicated DOS machines. Just an ugly solution. All of this can be handled easily
- by a VMS system with A1MAIL. I'm sure that A1MAIL with PMDF-MR and other MR
- gateways can provide connectivity (all on one single platform) to anything you
- might need to talk to.
-
- > A couple of questions
- > that the Rep couldn't answer though, what transports/protocals can you run
- > with the MailWorks client (both environments)??
-
- Not sure of your question. If you means where can you send mail, then
- through Message Router you can get to:
-
- any PMDF using PMDF-MR (SMTP/BITnet/VMS MAIL/PMDF-FAX/etc...)
- X.400 using MRX
- VMS MAIL using PMDF-MR (or MRGATE -- better with PMDF-MR)
- SNADS using MR/S
- PROFS using MR/P
-
- If you mean what is the transport between PC/Mac and A1MAIL server then the
- answer is DECnet. They may also support TCP/IP, but I'm not sure.
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
-