Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!frye From: frye@cerl.uiuc.edu (G. David Frye) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Mail Systems Keywords: Mail, PCs, networking Message-ID: <1991Apr9.184418.7894@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 18:44:18 GMT References: <1991Apr2.152611.26499@cs.utk.edu> <1991Apr2.192824.20583@novell.com> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: UIUC Computer-based Education Research Lab Lines: 20 In article <1991Apr2.192824.20583@novell.com> brianb@plasma.kinetics.com (Brian Bulkowski) writes: > >A friend of mine did a cross cultural comparsion of mail packages, >and was unimpressed with QuickMail's ability to fit in with SMTP, >and with it's 256 *256 messages maximum storage capacity. He was >more impressed with a package called Eudora, which is from one of >those prolific universities like CMU or Michigan or something like that. >It works directly on TCP/IP. It won't make much sense unless the shop >has a lot of TCP/IP in place. Does anyone out there know more about >this package? My friend is quite a student of user interfaces, >and I trust him to be quite picky about details (tho quite a TCP bigot :-). Eudora was written by Steven Dorner at the University of Illinois. It is a Macintosh-resident POP-3 client. You can get a copy via anonymous FTP from "uxc.cso.uiuc.edu", in the "mail" directory. G. David Frye, U of Ill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNET: frye@cerl.uiuc.edu PLATO: frye / s / cerl PHONE: (217) 333-7439 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------