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From: dan@meritaus.UUCP (Daniel Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: mac mail connection to SMTP
Message-ID: <475@meritaus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:56:21 GMT
Organization: Merit Technology Austin Div.
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We desire to establish email between our MacII and our Unix network.
We recently setup a Kinetics Fastpath box and installed CAP
(columbia appletalk package) on our system.  I know of two commercial
solutions to the email problem:
  - Inbox (from the TOPS people at Sun), but it currently does not
    convert to SMTP, which is a necessity.  It is also expensive (~$1000)
    considering that we only want to connect one Mac.
  - GatorMail (which uses the Gatorbox, which we don't have)... it
    DOES convert to SMTP, but it too is around $1000.  Also, I believe
    Gatormail is only the mail converter, and that it operates with
    three different mail programs on the mac.

Surely people have solved this problem before.  Are there any cheaper
solutions than the $1000 alternative (e.g. PD stuff?).  Or even
some PD mail converters that work with Quickmail(?).

Email is appreciated, as I am not a regular reader of these newsgroups.

thanks!
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dan haug
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