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From: andrew@dgbt.uucp (Andrew Patrick )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC NFS
Summary: Is there an alternative to PC-NFS LIFELINE for MSDOS mail?
Keywords: nfs mail MSDOS
Message-ID: <1198@dgbt.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 89 14:02:43 GMT
References: <17676@vrdxhq.verdix.com> <3781@phri.UUCP> <1121@dgbt.uucp> <8@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Reply-To: andrew@dgbt.crc.dnd.ca (Andrew Patrick (DBR))
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
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In article <8@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) writes:
>In article <1121@dgbt.uucp> I wrote:
>   Sun sells a product called PC-NFS Lifeline that runs on top of PC-NFS
>   and provides for mail service at the PC.  Lifeline runs in either SMTP
>   or POP mode -- I have only fooled with the POP mode.  The mailer that
>   runs on the PC is OK, with a nice menu system for novices, but there
>   are a few annoying bugs.  Basically, Lifeline gives you adequate mail
>   capabilities on your PC-NFS clients.
>
>Have you asked Sun when those bugs will be fixed?  We looked at
>Lifeline a while ago, but dropped it when Sun told us they had no
>future planned for it.

The bugs in Lifeline are getting me down.  We have it running on 6
PCs and it continues to crash the machines for no apparent
reason.  Further, about 50% of the time mail is not sent correctly and
is placed in the "queue" for later delivery.

Are there alternatives to Lifeline Mail that will run on top of PC-NFS
(or something similar)?  Something that uses the POP protocol would be
nice.


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Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.         Communications Research Centre
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