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- From: bha@vall.dsv.su.se (Bertil Hansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: Mac Mail Systems: Which one to choose?
- Message-ID: <1850@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:43:21 GMT
- References: <BuDEr2.FL5@cs.dal.ca> <1992Sep10.183251.20584@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1992Sep14.041357.4174@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Stockholm University, Sweden
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- In article <1992Sep14.041357.4174@trl.oz.au> ssuther@brahma.trl.OZ.AU (S. Sutherland) writes:
- >rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) writes:
- >
- >>We use Macintosh Microsoft Mail and PC Microsoft Mail and a product called
- >>MS Mail Connection which allows the two platforms to exchange address lists.
- >>We also have SMTP gateways for both platforms to allow them to send Internet
- >>mail. The PC SMTP gateway is from Microsoft. The Mac SMTP gateway is from
- >>StarNine.
- >
- >I understood that the forthcoming release of Microsoft Mail for PC
- >networks (v3.0) also included a Macintosh client that worked 'directly'
- >with MSmail (assuming a common network platform like Novell).
- >
- >Am I right or wrong?
- >
-
- Right, as reported to me by Microsoft. (Still waiting for delivery)
- Version 2.1, which we use now, also has a Mac client. This is possible
- due to the fact that MS Mail for PC Networks is nothing but a passive
- set of files installed on a shared disk on the file server. If the
- server can export a DOS file system, DOS users may use mail. If the
- server can make the disk look like an AppleShare server at the same
- time, then a Macintosh client is possible.
-
- All delivery and administration is made by client programs, there is
- no "daemon" in the Unix sense. This has not changed with version 3.0.
- However, address list export within a domain and other administrivia
- is now more or less automatic.
-
- My personal and greatest complaint is that Microsoft do not support
- more than 50 Mac users on a Lan Manager 2.1 server with the "Lan
- Manager Services for Macintosh". This will change, I am told, when Lan
- Manager for Windows NT is available - in a year or so. I am aware of
- other LAN Operating Systems that would remedy that right now. Sigh.
-
- --Bertil Hansson <bha@dsv.su.se>!"The ideal situation is to have real computing
- Arbetsmilj|institutet, Solna !power close at hand - right at home. Something
- voice +46 8 730 95 96 !that dims streetlights and shrinks the picture
- fax +46 8 82 63 53 !on the neighbors TV when you crank it up"-anon
-