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From: rob@GOLDILOCKS.MIT.EDU (Robert Kassel)
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Subject: Re: What to do for mail?
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Date: 24 Aug 88 20:15:00 GMT
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    Date: 23 Aug 88 05:10:34 GMT
    From: budd@bu-cs.bu.edu  (Philip Budne)

    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.

Right now I know of two: Microsoft Mail and Quick Mail (from CE
Software).  Both allow you to write translators to other mail systems,
but so far the only announced translators are for AppleLink and MCI
mail.


					ROB