Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!news From: laf@mitre.org (Lee Fyock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where? Message-ID: <1991May30.121037.7209@linus.mitre.org> Date: 30 May 91 12:10:37 GMT References: <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 48 Nntp-Posting-Host: asgard.mitre.org In article <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper) writes: >In article , ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes: > >> So what's out there to do what? What's good? What's not so good? I'm >> looking for ANYTHING that uses MacTCP; commercial stuff is not excepted >> (though it may lose out to freeware sometimes). > >Well, I've got a couple. Most are pretty standard but here goes anyway - > >LeeMail - an SMTP mailer - very simple and it crashes SE's. Great for testing > mailers if nothing else. LeeMail 1.1 should be out within a week. A few of the changes between 1.0 and 1.1 are Doesn't crash 68000 machines (sorry!) Multiple incoming/outgoing mail windows All windows are resizeable/zoomable/movable Aliases for long email addresses Better error checking Closer adherance to the RFC Use of the notification manager Saving of mail messages Reply with autoquote Read/Delete/Save multiple messages and many many more! All told, it's a much easier program to use. >Most of these are available via ftp from info-mac. > >I've yet to see - > > - a finger client > - a talk client/server There is supposedly a finger client MPW tool on the latest develop CD, but I haven't had time to take a look at it. I also started a talk client/server but ran into some problems... There's a System 7 IAC version (instead of MacTCP) on the System 7.0b4 CD. Lee Fyock laf@mitre.org