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From: dyker@uswat.UUCP (Barbara Dyker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What to do for mail?
Keywords: SMTP mail UNIX
Message-ID: <687@uswat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 00:39:32 GMT
References: <19880822142451.5.ROB@PADDINGTON.MIT.EDU> <2791@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyker@boulder.USWest.COM (Barbara Dyker)
Organization: US West Advanced Technologies, Colorado USA
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The summary of currently available mail packages for the mac was good, but...

checkout uShare by Information Presentation Technologies.
Supposidly it provides an interface to SMTP on a unix host for the mac.  The
software on the mac is an application and can notify you of incoming mail while
in another application.  The mac is not an SMTP server, it just allows you to
send and receive mail through a SMTP mail server without logging in via telnet
to do it.  uShare is a modular product that also provides things like terminal
emulation, file sharing (unix host as AppleShare server), print spooling (to
the unix host lpq)...

Interesting note:  uShare provides and upgrade to Kinetics software that MUST
be installed.  The software causes the Kinetics to talk TCP/IP on the Ethernet
side.  Therefore uShare is incompatible with certain software that relies
Kinetics/IP, eg. Tops for the Sun.  It IS compatible with NCSA Telnet.

This product is on the shelf.  I just haven't gotten mine yet.

Barbara J. Dyker		dyker%uswest@boulder.Colorado.EDU