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From: klong@pauling.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Mail Programs for the Mac
Summary: SMTP mail coming under MacOS from Apple
Keywords: SMTP Apple MacOS Unix Mail
Message-ID: <1520@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 17:16:40 GMT
References: <8904241822.AA01574@ares.bsd.uchicago.edu> <185@hermix.UUCP>
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In article <185@hermix.UUCP> lance@hermix.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse) writes:
>In article <8904241822.AA01574@ares.bsd.uchicago.edu>, martin@ares.bsd.uchicago.edu (Martin Starr) writes:
>> .. via a FastPath 4, would like to be able to receive e-mail without
>> Telneting to the host. 
>I would like to hear about such products that will work over TCP/IP instead
>of AppleTalk, though.

Expect to see later this summer and into the fall:
    Internet Routing
    SMTP Mail
    NFS
and a couple of other prayers answered in the July-September time frame
all from Apple, all for MacOS-based systems, all built on top of their
TCP/IP drivers.  This should let users send and receive SMTP mail without
having to log on to a host.  I'm not sure whether someone's Mac will be
designated as the area's server and will always stay up, or if the 
protocol will be a mix of SMTP and POP-like services, but we'll see.

I can't tell you how I know or where I saw it, but it was from a source 
that probably wasn't supposed to reveal it and was on paper.  
I suspect pumping your Apple reps for information might be revealing.
Hopefully it will really come to pass.

At the least, APDA should have in their next catalog the MacTCP drivers
as XCMDs. It's not inconceivable for someone with free time to write a
stack to search out and receive (and send)  mail using these drivers.

From what I've been seeing lately, I'd be worried if I were a LAN-based mail
product unless I was willing to start including SMTP support.  I'd also hate
to have a lot of stock options at Cayman these days.

    Regards,
    Kevin

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