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- From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.mail.mush
- Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.234009.13247@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 23:40:09 GMT
- References: <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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- In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
- >I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
- >system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
- >something with more features, especially since most users are
- >used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or
- >otherwise), please let me know.
-
- I hate to plug a commercial product here, but I'm going to do it anyway...
- (I'm not affiliated with these guys at all, other than a kinda happy customer).
-
- Take a look at Zmail, from the guys that gave the world mush (mail user shell).
-
- It has Motif interfaces, curses interfaces, line-mode interfaces, and Openlook
- interfaces, runs on everything, supports all kinds of cool features, the
- list is endless.
-
- Definitely get it. Pricing is OK. With the caveat below...
-
- One BIG gripe. (Had to be one didn't there... :)
-
- Licensing is seriously hosed for a person that wants to buy mush for
- themselves. It's locked to a machine, I think it's the IP address or
- the ethernet address or something stupid like that.
-
- If you're a single user, wanting to spring for a mail package that you can
- run on multiple machines, then zmail is not for you, it sucks rocks.
- I wanted to be able to run it on 2 different machines. Not at the same time,
- but even if I did, I'm the only one using it. I wanted to install it into
- my account, but it can't be done. It has to be in /usr/lib/Zmail or
- somesuch.
-
- The moral of the story is, don't buy it if you're a single user wanting a
- nice X based mail package to run. If you're stocking a 5900 for 200 users
- or something, then it's definitely worth looking into.
-
- My 2 bits...
-
- --
- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780
- 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
- Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu
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