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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Mail for the mac and smtp
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Date: 3 Feb 90 00:36:18 GMT
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In article <65967@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M.
McDonald) writes:
> Many MacMail to SMTP interfaces have been through Quickmail or some
> other product. I would be interested in hearing about efforts (maybe
> there is only one or none) to make real UNIX mail and real SENDMAIL
> work on a Macintosh network.

The closest I know of are some efforts (by our company among others) that
allow a Mac to be a parasite of a UNIX mail host.  In short, you get
real live Internet mail on you Mac, but it depends on a smart host (usually
running sendmail or MMDF) to actually do the routing.  Mail retrieval
is usually done with POP, since doing SMTP all the way to a Mac has some
problems (Macs tend to be turned off a lot more than your average mail
hub, for example :-)).

If one were to do a full internet mail package on a Mac, one would probably
pick something a little easier to configure than sendmail, too... :-).

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
	--Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"