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Re: All-in-1 mail, POPMail

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From: mcdonald
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:08
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In article <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, cmcneil@mta.ca (Chris McNeil) writes:
> I don't know if this is the right place for this question but if it is
> not could someone please direct me to a better place to post it.
> 
> 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.

We are using MAILworks (aka Allin1 MAIL for xxx) and like it very much.  It
runs on our MACs, PC's, dumb terminals, and X terminals, so anyone can move
between platforms and still get at his mail. 

> 
>  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).

The license for MAILworks comes with Pathworks, so if you have pathworks,
you have Mailworks.  If you can fall under the CSLG as an educational
institution you can get the VT client and the DECW client under that
program.

It does handle arbitrary binary attachments.  We also have purchased PMDF from
Innosoft (SALES@INNOSOFT.COM) which allows us to pass binary attachments to
the Internet in MIME format.  We also have an internal X.400 network that
we can pass binaries over.  All in all, we like it.

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Dan McDonald                    * UUCP      ...utacfd!dalsil!mcdonald
Dallas Computer Services	* Internet  mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
Summer Institute of Linguistics * ATTmail   sil!mcdonald
7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd           * SILnet    MCDONALD@AM@DALLAS
Dallas, TX 75236                * FAXnet    (214)709-3387
USA                             * POTSnet   (214)709-3389
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x.400: C=US; ADMD=WESTERN UNION; O=SIL; DDA.ELN=62897168
      include "VMS MAIL: DAN.MCDONALD" in text for automated delivery :-(
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From: mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: All-in-1 mail, POPMail
Message-ID: <1992Nov11.170800.47@dallas.sil.org>
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:08:00 CST
References: <1992Nov11.154720.28785@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center
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