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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Looking for Mac<->Sun Mail Recommendations
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Date: 24 Jun 91 21:27:36 GMT
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s-dorner@uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
brett@jericho.uunet.uu.net writes:
>>I'm looking for recommendations for a mail system for several Macs
>>connected to a Sun network.
>It sounds to me like you're a candidate for one of the POP/SMTP mailers.

Since Steve has a conflict of interest, I'll add a couple things:

>  POPmail (boombox.micro.umn.edu)
HyperCard (i.e. slow), not the best written, clumsy, POP2.  The manual and
the app for reading it suck rotten eggs.

>  Eudora (ftp.cso.uiuc.edu)
Fast, small, easy, well written, slick, POP3.  Get the beta version (1.2b50
currently.  There are some minor problems, but it has a couple highly
desirable features).  The manual and the app for reading it suck rotten eggs.
There is a version of the manual supposedly in Pagemaker format, but I can't
get it to work (how hard can it be?).

I don't know about the other POP mailers.

There is popper on the unix side for POP3 (it goes in inetd).  "The POP
server is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.CC.Berkeley.EDU
(128.32.136.9, 128.32.206.12)."  Get popper-version.tar.Z

boombox probably has a popd available.

The users took an instant like to Eudora after having used POPmail.  I got
compliments for bringing it in.  What more can I say?

-- 
Brian Aslakson
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