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From: budd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Philip Budne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: What to do for mail?
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Date: 23 Aug 88 05:10:34 GMT
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Reply-To: budd@buita.bu.edu (Phil Budne)
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A fine question!  At MacWorld I prowled the entire MicroSoft display,
and found many Macs wearing "Running MicroSoft Mail!!" stickers, but
never any glossy (never mind solid) information.

While ideally I feel that a Mac client implementation of IMAP2 (or
even MH/POP) piggybacked onto NCSA Telnet would be ideal, I am not yet
ready to try to create a seamless Mac application.  I'd rather try to
build a CAP server for a prexisting, supported Mac client.  Much the
way AUFS requires no special Mac software.

What Mac Mail packages exist (multimedia or plain text) that depend of
a central server?  Mail systems with central servers best fit the
model of Mac usage (you can turn it off and still get mail), as well
as being good targets for building servers using CAP on Un*x hosts.

	-Phil Budne, Boston University