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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: email for Macintosh
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Date: 28 Jun 89 11:14:02 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>Run, do not walk, and get Quickmail from CE sofware. This is probably the most
>flexible package to date, is very fast, handles large groups over multiple
>servers with ease, and due to its open architecture, can be modified to
>handle Compuserve, MCI Mail, Genie, and a variety of other sources.

> I have done some testing of Quickmail and found it to be much slower 
> than Microsoft Mail in terms of communication with the mail server.

We have a PC Novell network, a Mac/MacJANET network, a Sun mainframe as well
as a Cyber (CDC) mainframe. None of the products available will integrate
these diverse platforms. Quickmail and MS-Mail can be used to make PCs and
Macs talk to each other, but only if the PCs have Appletalk cards. Only
our server has an Appletalk card. I doubt we will ever find a mail program
that will do what we want...


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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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