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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: questions
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Date: 2 Nov 88 16:57:15 GMT
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In article <2594@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> cole@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Robert Cole) writes:
>1.  NeXT Mail - It appears to be enhancements to UNIX Mail.  What
>happens when you send mail to someone on another system and their
>system is down?  Does the NeXT machine retry several times or just
>fail?

Sendmail queues mail for later delivery if attempts fail, and will
retry for several days.  Very standard stuff, been around for ages.
DEC has even begun shipping a VMS mailer agent that can deliver if the
destination DECnet host is down!  It must be a good idea :-)

>At Educom, my dean asked questions about the mail system and was told
>that you had to be logged into a mainframe and write your own
>interface for the NeXT mail system to the mainframe.

That must be if you want a NeXT interface to the mainframe's mail
system, with voice and pictures and everything.  I'd be inclined to
let the mainframe users do their own thing, and let them do RFC822 if
they want to talk to me - that's the way it works already.
-=-
Zippy sez,								--Bob
I selected E5...  but I didn't hear ``Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs''!