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- From: mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: All-in-1 mail, POPMail
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.140452.48@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:04:52 CST
- References: <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <BxKqA8.ADA@rice.edu>
- Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center
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- In article <BxKqA8.ADA@rice.edu>, dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes) writes:
- > 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
-
- Sorry, but you are a victim of the Allin1 MAIL bad name choice fiasco. I
- would agree wholehardily that Allin1 Integrated Office System would be an
- extremely bad choice for him in this situation. However, he is talking
- about using MAILWORKS (aka Allin1 MAIL for xxx). Mailworks does not take
- much more resources than VMSMail. It is a little harder to set up, but
- once its up it is very clean.
-
- > 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
-
- Sorry, but neither Allin1 IOS or MAILWORKS uses Mail-11. They are both
- based on Message Router (which is now provided under the DECNET end-node
- license). A gateway is needed to get to the rest of the world, however, of
- which there are several. The best is from Innosoft.
-
- > c) can afford the licensing cost for significant numbers of
- > microcomputer clients.
-
- If you are already running Pathworks, then there is no additional licensing
- fee. Mailworks for DOS comes with the PATHworks for DOS client license,
- and MAilworks for MAC comes with the Pathworks for MAC client license.
-
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