🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> Chris McNeil <cmcneil@mta.ca> writes:
>We are currently using popmail ( POPMail, Eudora, NUPOP as clients) on
>our campus as our mail solution for PC's and like it very much. We are a
>a DEC site and Dec is trying to get us to switch to all-in-1 mail. Can
>anyone that has used the above comment on it.

In one word: don't. All-in-1 is fine *IF*:

  a) you have significant machine and personnel resources
     available to manage it and it's databases
  b) you are willing to accept the limitations and syntactical
     complexity involved in getting the Mail-11 transport to cope
     with non-DEC network software and protocols
  c) can afford the licensing cost for significant numbers of
     microcomputer clients.

> I like POP mail due to the fact that it is TCP based, enclosures are
>fairly standard (ie lots of sites in the world can handle binhexed
>enclosures), is free and is simple (ie no SMTP gateway as are required in
>non TCP based mail systems).

If you like what you have (and it sounds like you do), then don't
mess with it. Interoperability and ease of use is much more
important, and you've already got that. All-in-1 isn't worth the
amount of retraining it would take to implement. If your users
are happy, then you're doing the right thing. 

>Chris McNeil
>Network Manager
>Mount Allison University
>Sackville NB Canada
>cmcneil@mta.ca


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David Boyes
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