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From: wezel@bio.vu.nl (Jos van Wezel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Wanted: Mac POP3 server? More info on internet mail software
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.152947.6923@bio.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Oct 90 15:29:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.112534.15588@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> <1990Oct4.210925.14006@qualcomm.com>
Organization: VU, Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Oct4.210925.14006@qualcomm.com> jwn2@qualcomm.com (John Noerenberg) writes:
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>In your list of known POP3 clients, you omitted MIT's TechMail.  It is
>a very well executed Mac application (as opposed to a Hypercard stack).

Except that the current Techmail wants the 109/tcp port number, which is set
aside for POP2 servers. Maybe the upcoming sources will relief this. It is
definite trouble to run a POP3 server on the POP2 port as there are very good
POP2 clients too.

Another botch is the 32K limit on messages. Maybe we were wrong, but about
4 or 5 pages (hexcoded) of wordprocessor output is the most you can send away.

Then there is the simple password encryption used by Techmail. This is
not standard and effectively means you cannot use other POP3 clients on its
server.

True, it has a very nice Mac appeal and gives nice printouts. However I found
the new Eudora (1.1) as good in those respects.

But I do hope the next release improves these misses.

Jos van Wezel
Computergroup, Biol. Lab., VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.