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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Wanted: e-mail for macs on an AppleTalk network
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 13:18:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 13:18:01 1987
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In article <1713@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> Have you looked into InBox from Think Technologies?  It seems to have the
> best potential for future growth into real, inter-OS, long-range electronic
> mail, and it works on Macs and PCs now.
> -- 
> Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot

Annoyances of InBox:
a)  Requires a dedicated server.
b)  Requires everybody to have the same version of System (and Finder?).

I have a demo version of InterMail, an e-mail system for Macintoshes on
AppleTalk.  It looks pretty good, doesn't require a dedicated Mac, and seems
be pretty flexible as to what it's installed on.  I can't think of anything
that InBox does that InterMail doesn't, for the Macintosh.  Admittedly, it
doesn't exist on PCs yet.

For those of you who are curious, the Demo version of InterMail does most
of what the real InterMail is supposed to do, except it doesn't transmit
pictures, the reminder facility is disabled,  and is limitted to storing only
six messages in the mail box.  I haven't tested the latter (a salesman said
that it would only store six messages, but he also said it wouldn't print and
he was wrong about that, so...)  It also supports multiple zones, and I'm not
sure if InBox does yet.

The only problems I've seen is that it sometimes is bad about telling you when
you actually have received mail.

Looks funky.  I'm not sure of it's status, but if people are interested, I'll
post it to net.sources.mac.
--
"I know that I should be running..."                   Peter Merchant
                                                       merchant@dartvax.UUCP