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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: popd mail works? available?
- Message-ID: <davecb.720971320@yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <EBROWN.92Nov3123515@bud_light.kodak.com> <1992Nov4.081539.29601@csus.edu> <davecb.720882045@yorku.ca> <1992Nov5.032148.27467@csus.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:48:40 GMT
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- eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
- |None--we run POP servers for the benefit of Macintoys and other
- |"inadequate" machines. POP clients offer no advantage to us;
- |NeXTs are perfectly happy NFS-mounting a mail spool, and a
- |suitably hacked sendmail.cf takes care of things in the other
- |direction.
-
- This probably should be crossposted to comp.mail.sendmail.flame (:-)), but
- York is trying very hard to provide e-mail to a large community which is
- **not** early-adopters, and so tend to regard sendmail's vagarities as the
- actions of a **formally erronious** mail program. That we have to use nfs
- mounts and hacked sendmails is a positive disadvantage to us.
- We're a zmailer-and-pop site, and would prefer never to see another
- copy of sendmail again. Thus the question about proper NeXT pop clients.
-
- --dave
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
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