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From: rschofield@lucy.wellesley.EDU (Dick Schofield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Mail package alternatives
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Date: 16 Mar 88 16:19:25 GMT
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Wellesley College is in the process of evaluating alternatives to what, if
I may be blunt, we consider to be a totally unacceptable VMS-Mail.  To that
end, I am looking, generally, for information on alternative packages and,
specifically, for information/comments on MM-32 (son of MM and cousin of
MS) and the University of Western Ontario mail system.

The IDEAL package would run on VMS and Ultrix (and Primos?), would have a
decent user interface, would be able to deliver mail to other hosts -- both
local and remote (DECnet, SMTP, X.400, etc.), would support queued delivery
(when one of those hosts is temporarily unavailable), would have tailorable
message headers, could invoke an editor only when needed to correct an
unforeseen typo, ....

Please reply directly to me and I'll summarize the responses in INFO-VAX.

Dick Schofield
Director of Academic Computing
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02181
(617) 235-0320 Ext. 3107
RSCHOFIELD@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU (Internet)