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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh mail utilities
Message-ID: <579@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 05:46:37 GMT
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In article <9272@drutx.ATT.COM> mcp@drutx.ATT.COM (Mike Paugh) writes:
>Some of the things InBox does not do (and does not document):
>
>	If you want to use a MacII as a server, that is all that machine can do.
	Agreed that it's a nuisance to not be able to configure a Mac II as
a background Message Center; however, if you have some other server (TOPS,
AppleShare) you can configure the message center to run in the foreground
on top of the server program. This works quite well and reliably.

>	The indicator that you have mail waiting is an InBox logo where the 
> Apple	logo usually is. This does not work if you have a color monitor.

	It doesn't work if you are running in more than monochrome mode,
regardless of whether you have a color monitor or not. However, the visual
InBox symbol is not the only mail indicator; there are also audio and visual
indicators, which can be set to repeat as long as you have mail waiting.

>If you choose once to tell InBox to remember your password, you cannot go
>back and reverse that decision. This is not a large complaint, just an
>annoying aspect.

	This is simply not true. When you double-click the InBox Startup
program after having already logged  in, InBox presents you with an options
dialog; you can enter name and password, and set options like turning off
remembrance of name and password, as well of what type of alerts you want.

>When I called the people at CE and asked them if QuickMail could do the above
>things that InBox could not, they sent me a QuickMail package to try free for
>30 days. We sent them the money after using it for one day.

	I would respond, but it's not sporting for me to make comments about
a competing product. We've also tried QuickMail in-house.


		--Rich




Rich Siegel
Staff Software Developer
THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
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