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From: prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul R. Wenker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What to do for mail?
Message-ID: <950@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 24 Aug 88 14:24:21 GMT
References: <19880822142451.5.ROB@PADDINGTON.MIT.EDU> <2791@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: prw@meccsd.UUCP (Paul R. Wenker)
Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp.
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In article <2791@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
>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
> IMQ	Will talk to unix in the future (announced)
>   Q	Talk to ASCII/Serial hosts (this may be a way to get unix connectivity)
>

We've gotten QuickMail to talk to our UNIX box without too many
problems.  The biggest problem we had was that QuickMail kept sending
'ATH0' to the UNIX machine.  When login got that, it decided to go
into uppercase mode (yeecch!).

Anyway, sending mail from the Mac to UNIX is pretty easy.  You just
set up a user with a name (i.e. "John Q. Public") and an address (i.e.
jqp@unixbox).  Sending mail to UNIX users is no different that sending
mail to Mac users.

Sending mail from UNIX to the Mac is almost as easy, but was a little
more work.  We set up a site called 'quickm'.  To mail something to a
Mac user, you just mail to user@quickm (i.e. jqp@quickm).  Since the
QuickMail scripting language isn't really set up to read the UNIX mail
headers, the quickm site adds an XTo: line (so the user's full name can
easily be extracted) and an XFrom: line (to facilitate replies from
QuickMail).  There are several people here who have their UNIX mail
forwarded to their Mac.

The problems we have yet to work out include:

-UNIX users cannot reply to messages sent from QuickMail.  The return
path is wrong.

-UNIX users cannot send to multiple QuickMail users.  Messages must be
sent to each user individually.

-Getting QuickMail to talk to the UNIX box via a direct line rather
than a modem.  QuickMail REALLY wants to be talking to a modem.


We've been very happy with QuickMail.  It's functionality far exceeds
that of InBox, which we had been using previously.  It's also one
tenth the cost.

-Paul Wenker			prw@meccsd
-MECC, Technical Services