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- From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
- Subject: Re: All-in-1 mail, POPMail
- Message-ID: <BxKqA8.ADA@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
- References: <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:54:07 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> Chris McNeil <cmcneil@mta.ca> writes:
- >We are currently using popmail ( POPMail, Eudora, NUPOP as clients) on
- >our campus as our mail solution for PC's and like it very much. We are a
- >a DEC site and Dec is trying to get us to switch to all-in-1 mail. Can
- >anyone that has used the above comment on it.
-
- In one word: don't. All-in-1 is fine *IF*:
-
- a) you have significant machine and personnel resources
- available to manage it and it's databases
- b) you are willing to accept the limitations and syntactical
- complexity involved in getting the Mail-11 transport to cope
- with non-DEC network software and protocols
- c) can afford the licensing cost for significant numbers of
- microcomputer clients.
-
- > I like POP mail due to the fact that it is TCP based, enclosures are
- >fairly standard (ie lots of sites in the world can handle binhexed
- >enclosures), is free and is simple (ie no SMTP gateway as are required in
- >non TCP based mail systems).
-
- If you like what you have (and it sounds like you do), then don't
- mess with it. Interoperability and ease of use is much more
- important, and you've already got that. All-in-1 isn't worth the
- amount of retraining it would take to implement. If your users
- are happy, then you're doing the right thing.
-
- >Chris McNeil
- >Network Manager
- >Mount Allison University
- >Sackville NB Canada
- >cmcneil@mta.ca
-
-
- --
- David Boyes
- dboyes@rice.edu
-