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From: brett@jericho.uunet.uu.net (Brett Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Looking for Mac<->Sun Mail Recommendations
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.022141.23188@jericho.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 91 02:21:41 GMT
Sender: brett@jericho.uucp (Brett Cheng)
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
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I'm looking for recommendations for a mail system for several Macs
connected to a Sun network.

Here is our setup:

- Macs connected by Ethernet to a Sun network.
- Macs running standard AppleShare.
- file server and print spooling on the Suns where the server is running 
  IPT's uShare software - anyone with a unix login can mount Mac volumes.
- in addition to file serving/print spooling, we use NCSA Telnet to get 
  login and ftp access to the Suns.

Mail System Requirements:

- must run with current file sharing configuration i.e. on the Mac side 
  must coexist with standard EtherTalk AppleShare. 
- must talk to Sun mail system, using Sun as mail server.
  (don't want to run a Mac as a dedicated mail server)
- should use unix login names for addressing, so don't want separate list of 
  Mac user addressess and Sun user addresses.
- prefer that users of both Mac and Sun can still get mail either machine.
- for the sake of simplicity to the non-unix types, we would prefer not to 
  make them use Telnet to login to Sun and run command-line mail.
- must be able to print mail, file into mailboxes, reply, attach files, etc.

**> Any recommendations?

This is probably a tall order to fill...
I've read about several mail packages, but most of them seem to require 
running a dedicated Mac as a mail server, and very few seem to talk to Sun 
mail (SMTP). InBox Plus from Sitka (TOPS) plus their MailLink SMTP gateway 
software looks like it may meet most of our requirements...

**> Anybody out there with experience with these or similar products 
    on a setup like ours? 

One last comment - I've tried out a few Mac uucp packages, most notably 
uAccess which has a very nice interface but is probably overkill and 
expensive for more than a single Mac (we currently have 6). 
However a uucp-style mail system for our Macs would be okay if we can 
connect over Ethernet and if the user interface is not too clunky.

**> Will any of the uucp packages such as uAccess work over Ethernet?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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Brett Cheng         uunet!jericho!brett
S-MOS Systems, Inc. Vancouver Design Center