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- From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Mail User agents
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 09:29:41 GMT
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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??
-
- It is really not that hard to arrange for the necessary file transfers.
- We use PathWorks internally for this and it is seamless and clean. Any
- other file server facility should work.
-
- The only problems with multi-part mail are caused by the severe limitations
- cc:Mail imposes. Text messages must consist of very short lines and cannot be
- very long in cc:Mail. Everything else has to be a file attachment. The PMDF
- gateway to cc:Mail takes all of this into account, and the results are the best
- they can be, but I still don't like the limitations.
-
- cc:Mail also doesn't support type information for attachments. This is a severe
- limitation; you lose a lot of valuable information here.
-
- There are essentially no problems with gatewaying cc:Mail and its attachments
- into MIME. MIME is more than versatile enough to handle everything cc:Mail
- can produce.
-
- Please note that MHS has restrictions too -- in some ways it is more restricted
- and in other ways it is less -- so there really is no perfect solution to these
- problems.
-
- Ned
-