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From: mha@memory.UUCP (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: QuickMail <--> Smtp
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Date: 27 Apr 91 09:13:42 GMT
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Subject:   RE> QuickMail <--> Smtp               QuickMail Reply

In article <1991Apr26.124541.886@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, Bob Jenner
(jenner@post.ntu.edu.au) writes:
> We are currently using Quickmail as our internal mail system and
> would like to bridge Q'Mail to SMTP. GatorMail-Q will do this but at
> $7000 for a site license, is out of my price range. 

Whew.  No argument there!

> Has anyone had experience with "SMTP/QM" from Information Electronics
> or "StarNine" from Berkeley CA ? I believe these applications are
> both Q'Mail <-> SMTP bridges. Do you know approximate costs ?

StarNine, Inc. is the developer of GatorMail, which is sold by Cayman (as well
as by StarNine itself, now), so that is the same product.  Information
Electronics' new "SMTP\QM" product has a retail price of $599 per server for an
UNLIMITED number of users (though that price is scheduled to go up this summer
to $749, I believe).  I have used NEITHER of these two SMTP products
extensively, but I am a VERY heavy user of IE's UMCP\QM uucp to QuickMail
bridge (that's how I received your posting, and how I'm replying to it). 
SMTP\QM and UMCP\QM are quite similar in concept, and I find UMCP highly
satisfactory and successful in meeting my needs.  If you have any specific
questions about SMTP\QM, I should be able to answer them, or at the very least,
find an answer.

> I have snail-mailed the suppliers but would appreciate any e-mail.

IE's email address is infoelect@rubicon.ie.com, if you wish to write to them
via e-mail.  I know that StarNine also has an Internet link, and their domain
name is starnine.com.  Try writing to postmaster@starnine.com for the address
of an appropriate person to talk to there.

Charles Bunch also mentioned U of Toronto's Beavergate package.  While the
price is certainly right (I believe it's free... if not, it is shareware), I
don't think it really comes up to the level of either of the commercial
offerings we're talking about.

Disclaimer: The company I work for (BAKA Computers, Inc.) sells Macintosh
software, including Information Electronics' products... but I am just a Happy
User of IE software.

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