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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
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Subject: Re: Desktop Mail in the University Environment
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:57:26 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.180742.10056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
> In article <3391@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John 
Norstad) writes:
> >As another example, It would be neat to see Eudora and the POP 
protocols 
> >extended so that Mac users could access the mail forwarding and 
"vacation" 
> >facilities without having to log on to the UNIX host.
> 
> One of the departments here has an ongoing project in AI-assisted mail.
> What John wants would be a trivial example of what they do.
> 
> We are considering a joint project to bring their "Mail Assistant" stuff
> into (a version of) Eudora.  I dunno if it will fly, but it may be
> interesting if it does.

Wonderful!  This stuff just keeps getting better and better.  A third 
thing I forgot to mention is changing the account password - this is 
another thing that the user has to actually log on to the UNIX host to do. 
I know it's no big deal, but the whole point of this stuff (from my point 
of view) is to avoid having to log on to the host at all.

Someone wrote me a note today and asked how I thought Apple's plans to 
support some kind of desktop mail as a built-in system feature affected 
this whole discussion.  God, I don't know!  But it should be interesting.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu