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From: schwerin@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stan Schwerin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: InBox PLUS
Keywords: InBox
Message-ID: <3860@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 90 17:41:30 GMT
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Reply-To: schwerin@milton.u.washington.edu (Stan Schwerin)
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In article <4434@dewey.cme.nist.gov> proctor@cme.nist.gov (Fred Proctor) writes:
>Has anyone used the new version of InBox, InBox Plus?  We just upgraded
>to TOPS version 3.0, and got the regular InBox nodes.  Sun says that
>the Plus version of InBox, when augmented with SMTP, X.400, PROFS, or
>MCI Mail, allows you to send e-mail across the internet.  Has anyone
>used InBox Plus and would recommend it?  Thanks in advance for any
>replies.

We have used it for about 3 months now.  It is exactly like 3.0, but can talk
to other mail servers and will handle gateways.  I *think* it will use gateways
to talk to foreign mail packages but I can't get them to send me one.  (money
does'nt work either)                            

One note:  We have it running on a Mac Plus (2.5MB) with an old HD20 hard disk.
No non-apple inits, dedicated machine, sounds solid huh?  No. give it 48 hours
and the machine will bomb!  InBox continues to run unaffected in the background
but the machine has a BOMB dialog on screen.  After a couple weeks of restarting
I finally just let it go.  works fine.


YO
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   YO  dude