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In article <BxKqA8.ADA@rice.edu>, dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes) writes:
> 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

Sorry, but you are a victim of the Allin1 MAIL bad name choice fiasco.  I
would agree wholehardily that Allin1 Integrated Office System would be an
extremely bad choice for him in this situation.  However, he is talking
about using MAILWORKS (aka Allin1 MAIL for xxx).  Mailworks does not take
much more resources than VMSMail.  It is a little harder to set up, but
once its up it is very clean.

>   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

Sorry, but neither Allin1 IOS or MAILWORKS uses Mail-11.  They are both
based on Message Router (which is now provided under the DECNET end-node
license).  A gateway is needed to get to the rest of the world, however, of
which there are several.  The best is from Innosoft.

>   c) can afford the licensing cost for significant numbers of
>      microcomputer clients.

If you are already running Pathworks, then there is no additional licensing
fee.  Mailworks for DOS comes with the PATHworks for DOS client license,
and MAilworks for MAC comes with the Pathworks for MAC client license.

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