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- From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac Mail Systems: Which one to choose?
- Message-ID: <sdorner-110992080817@dorner.slip.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:13:41 GMT
- References: <92248.101936A43345@TRMETU.BITNET> <BuDEr2.FL5@cs.dal.ca>
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- In article <BuDEr2.FL5@cs.dal.ca>, franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <92248.101936A43345@TRMETU.BITNET> A43345@TRMETU.BITNET writes:
- > > we can upgrade the MS Mail to 3.0 or we can choose another mail system.
- > > (Quick Mail, ...). So, which one to choose?We need a comparison
- > > considering price, user number vs price , efficiency, etc..
- > > Thanks.
- >
- > and which of these are compatible with DOS mailreaders? I too am in a
- > predicament where ~30 macs are ethernetted together and accessible
- > through internet. However, we have to be able to interact with DOS
- > machines as well. Can you think of an appopriate configuration?
-
- The following are Internet-compatible mail solutions for Macintoshes.
-
- COMMERCIAL
-
- TCP/Connect II (InterCon, kdb@intercon.com)
- Integrated mail/news/telnet/ftp/.... Works over MacTCP, own TCP, or
- dialup (SLIP). Mail uses POP3.
-
- uAccess (ICE Engineering, time@ice.com)
- UUCP package, includes mail/news/uucp.
-
- GatorMail (Cayman Systems, info@cayman.com)
- Gateways for Microsoft Mail and Quickmail.
-
- Dispatcher (Intercon, kdb@intercon.com)
- Gateway for QuickMail
-
- TokenWare
-
- MacMH (networking@jessica.stanford.edu)
- POP3 mail package. Uses MacTCP.
-
- ShareWare
-
- LeeMail ($10, laf@mitre.org)
- Pure SMTP mail program. Uses MacTCP
-
- FernMail ($20, dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us)
- Mail program. Works with UUPC, gnuucp or UUMac (an unreleased uupc
- port)
-
-
- FreeWare
-
- MacPost (ftp.lu.se)
- Mail server that runs on a Macintosh, mail clients talk to server over
- AppleTalk. Speaks SMTP to the internet.
-
- POPMail II (boombox.micro.umn.edu)
- POP2/POP3/SMTP mail package. Uses MacTCP.
-
- TechMail (net-dist.mit.edu)
- POP3/SMTP mail package. Uses MacTCP. Compatible with Kerberos.
-
- Mailstrom (treister@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU)
- IMAP/SMTP mail package. Uses MacTCP.
-
- MacPOP (ftp.cc.berkeley.edu)
- HyperCard-based POP3/SMTP mail package. Uses MacTCP.
-
- Eudora (ftp.cso.uiuc.edu)
- POP3/SMTP mail package. Uses MacTCP, dialup (Communications Toolbox)
- or UUPC (and probably gnuucp).
-
- UUPC (dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us)
- UUCP package.
-
- gnuucp (jim@fpr.com)
- UUCP package. Includes mail program.
-
- If an email address is listed, send inquiries to that address. If a host
- name is listed, use anonymous ftp.
-
- (Authors: if I've mangled or missed your product, contact, or ftp
- site, please let me know.)
-
- GLOSSARY
-
- IMAP - keeps you mail permanently on a "big" computer, but
- lets you access it over the internet.
- POP - Post Office Protocol; your mail waits on a "big" computer
- until your Mac picks it up.
- POP2 - The old version of POP.
- POP3 - The new version of POP.
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; how mail gets around the Internet.
- Requires the machines that talk it to be up most of the time.
- UUCP - Unix to Unix CoPy. Dialup file transfer protocol; news and mail
- are normally layered on top of it. Used by sites without Internet
- connections.
- MacTCP - Software that lets a Mac speak to the Internet.
- SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol. Software that lets a Mac speak
- to the Internet over a dialup line.
-
- --
- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.
-