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From: asher@UHURA.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU (Samuel Asher)
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Subject: Re: Need Unix Mail-to-Macintosh mail link
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Date: 21 Dec 88 19:11:03 GMT
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> ...but what seems to be missing is a mail program for the Mac
> that's smart enough to forward stuff to the UNIX systems.
>
> Cost is no object.
> 
Is time an Object?  If not, a combination of QuickMail and Star Nine
relay software will do what you would like.  I am told that they are in beta
test (we requested to be a beta test site but haven't gotten word from
Star Nine in the last month).  QuickMail works nicely from Mac to Mac.

Cayman is working with Microsoft on an Internet interface to MS-Mail,
via its GatorBox.

I hear that InBox, from TOPS, et. al., seems reluctant to share its
interfaces with anybody (you would think that they were controlled by IBM,
not Sun!)  Does anyone know why?  It's a really slick package for Mac-to-Mac.

Then, Stanford Mac/IP 3.0 has good old MH, but you need a Post Office server
to act as the go between if you want to transfer Mac to Mac.  It is not
nearly as user friendly as QuickMail, MS-Mail, and InBox, but it is the only
thing out there that works today.

It's nice to know that some people are big spenders.

	-Sam