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From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What to do for mail?
Message-ID: <2791@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 21:17:30 GMT
References: <19880822142451.5.ROB@PADDINGTON.MIT.EDU>
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From article <19880822142451.5.ROB@PADDINGTON.MIT.EDU>, by rob@GOLDILOCKS.MIT.EDU (Robert Kassel):
> 
> We're in the process of switching from using a DEC-20 for mail and text
> processing to using a network of Mac's.  I've been having difficulty
> locating applications to handle mail.
> 
> Here's the situation I envision.  We will have a Sun 4 acting as a file
> server and store-and-forward mailer.  Alternatively, we could use a Mac
> as a mail server.  We will be using a Cayman Systems GatorBox as a
> network bridge.

I have not yet purchased a mail system for our macintosh network, but have
been looking at all the options and trying to find one that is able to
talk to our existing unix mail system.  I know of 5 systems:

D------	DaynaMail
|I-----	Inbox
||M----	Microsoft Mail
|||Q---	Quickmail
||||S--	Stanford SMTP
|||||

    S	Talks to unix
DIMQ	Talks to other Macs
DI  	Talks to PCs
   Q	Will talk to PCs (announced)
 IMQ	Will talk to unix in the future (announced)
   Q	Talk to ASCII/Serial hosts (this may be a way to get unix connectivity)

D MQ	Requires Macintosh running Mail Server full time
  MQ	Mail Server can coexist with AppleShare and LaserShare
DI Q	Can substitute AppleShare Server for Mail server

DIMQ	Always Accessable (DA)
DIMQ	Incoming message notification  (INIT)
DIMQ	Attach other documents (Write/Paint/Draw etc)
DIMQ	Return Receipts
 IMQ	Password and Automatic logon

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Stanford's program, from tidbits that I have found on the net is an
application (as opposed to a da), can not notify you of incoming mail,
and is not suitable for mac to mac mail.  I have not seen the package,
literature on it, or anything else concrete, so I can't be sure of my info
on it.

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I have looked closest at quickmail.  The company impresses me.  I have
QuickKeys by them, and am impressed by it.  They sent me gobs of
information about Quickmail and the rest of their product line (I have
one page of info that the others sent).  

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I have only listed items that interest me, and that I have found in
the information that I have.  Although I have tried to be thorough ,
may be missing some features of some packages, or marked some features
that are not there.

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Current market trends have everyone scurrying to interface to SMTP or
other large scale networks, so I expect that the everyone will
eventually have the connectivity that I want (just not now :-( ).

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A company, Star nine, is putting a gateway between AUX and QuickMail into
beta testing.  They estimate that with in a year they will have a version
working on a vax with 4.3BSD, and maybe sooner if the interest is there.
I said that I was very interested.  If you have any questions about this
or want to encourage them along, you can contact Elizabeth McGee at
starnine%mcgee@uunet.uu.net  

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Let me know if you come up with anything else interesting.


-- 
 William C. DenBesten
 denbeste@bgsu.edu