Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!rayan
From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: Whither ZMAIL?
Message-ID: <89May11.181111edt.11591@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: Thu, 11 May 89 18:11:05 EDT

In article <322@amc-gw.UUCP> john@amc-gw.UUCP (John Sambrook) writes:
# Perhaps six months ago I read a short USENET article describing something
# called "ZMAIL" (or maybe "ZMAILER".)  In particular, I remember a quote
# like "Sendmail is old hat; ZMAIL is where it's at!"  I'd like to find out
# more about this package.

With such a penchant for producing memorable buzzphrases, perhaps I should
go into advertising...

No, it isn't withering.

It is in late stages of alpha testing (which started a couple of years ago),
runs on a few machines around the world, is built for demanding environments
and is still evolving (hence alpha).  Its motivation was Sendmail being
inadequate in many respects.  I will send more info to the people who sent
me private mail, but unless you are really^N fed up with Sendmail/MMDF, you are
better off waiting for the Grand Porting Exercise (beta) or Release.

rayan

"Sendmail's old hat; ZMailer is where it's at!"