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From: teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac/PC Mail/Bulletin Board Systems
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.093741.1701@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Nov 90 09:37:41 GMT
Reply-To: teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson)
Organization: Institute of Education University of London
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[This is being posted for a colleague...]


I'm interested in an E-mail / BB system which will
provide e-mail access to off-net Mac users with a
standard Mac/Human interface but also support 
people with pc's. We have a Mac AppleShare which
also runs Carbon Copy - so it can be locked away.
I've thought of QuickMail. Could that co-exist on
the Server Mac & receive calls via a Modem? 
Can / Should a networked Modem be used or the
spare serial port? Are the QMail server protocols
complex for the pc coming with procomm or such like?
I could use RR or White Knight on another Mac, 
perhaps running in Multifinder, for pc dial-in but
think it would be 1) a waste of a Mac 2) not robust.
Anyone experience of QMail or rivals in such a mode?

Thanks,

Phil Edwards
Molecular Endocrinology,
UC & Middlesex School of Medicine.
London


-- 
Andrew Dawson, Computer Centre, University College London, Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT, England.
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