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- Subject: RE: Mail User agents
- Message-ID: <9208162253.AA02779@jarrah.itd.adelaide.edu.au>
- From: andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 08:23:18 +1000
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- In message <713977262.781166.KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU> you write:
-
- + >> So the concept employed is that there is one central place
- + >> that stays up all day, and you can access from all over the place. The
- + >> problem now is that PC and Mac users expect a GUI as opposed to the
-
- + >That's why "store and forward" methods like POP have been very popular for
- + >PCs and MACs of late. There some very nice looking POP client programs
- + >available to overcome the issue of not having your personal computer
- + >turned on all the time.
-
- + Jack,
- + While not disagreeing with anything you've said, I think a
- + terminology clarification would be helpful before this discussion goes
- + down the path of a parallel discussion about these mail-receiving
- + protocols...
- + Strictly speaking, one could easily construct "store and forward", and
- + a solution to the shut-off workstation problem with SMTP alone. You
- + would set up MX records for the workstations that would deposit the mail
- + somewhere else if the workstation was off, e.g.,
- + workstation MX 0 workstation
- + workstation MX 10 postoffice
-
- This doesn't get around one of the problems I was raising,
- which is that these "mainframe derived" schemes only allow for the
- user to read their mail from one physical location, their PC. This is
- not acceptable in our institution, which is why we've gone cc:Mail and
- are about to start using PMDF to interface with it.
-
- Andrew.
-
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