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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Review;Quite a machine, but not a Mac
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Date: 20 Mar 90 20:05:34 GMT
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If I may make a plug, my MailManager and EasyMail (baby version of
MailManager) applications for the NeXT do a lot of what the old
tty-based tools do.  You can do the equivalent of the old familiar (to
MM or msg users) "headers answered from smith since 1-jan-90", but in
a nice GUI style.  Not surprising, actually, since one of the authors
of MM designed it.

This software was designed to be used in the real, gritty, Internet
environment.  It doesn't have pretty things like pictures or sound in
mail (yet).  Instead, it scales well for mailboxes with thousands of
messages.  Pictures and sound will come eventually, but my users care
more about getting an address book (in progress now) in first.

I've used it as my primary mail tool for almost a year now.  The only
time I use the tty-mail tools any more is which I log in via modem, or
when reading mail written in Japanese (since NeXTStep doesn't support
kanji fonts I have to use kterm under X windows).

MailManager/EasyMail work on remote mail files via the IMAP protocol
and on local Berkeley-format mail files.

We've been holding off a formal release pending the address book and a
new release of the IMAP daemon from Stanford University.  However, if
you'd like a beta copy, please contact me.

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