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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Dumb terminal user mail agent
Message-ID: <247@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 18:08:06 GMT
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Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch
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bromine@ISI.EDU (Bill Romine) writes:

>Does anyone know of a user mail agent which works with NeXT style
>mailboxes and a dumb terminal.  We would like to use NeXT's Mail
>application, but also be able to access the same mailboxes from a
>dialup line.  Just using the bsd mail agent distributed by NeXT
>doesn't cut it.

	We at RSX Tech are considering the potential demand for a highly
functional, but easy to use curses based e-mail interface for the NeXT.
The intent is to provide connectivity for those *not* operating at the
NeXT console, but rather accessing through alpha/numeric terminals or
remote dialup. We offer such a product (FXmail) under UNIX/386, Xenix/386
and other environments and can support the same product on the NeXT if
the demand is there.

	Obviously, NeXT Mail supports objects not appropriate to the
dumb terminal environment, a fact the mailer recognizes by supporting
posts to non-NeXT systems. How might you want such objects handled?
Email or post comments at your discretion.

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