🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct13.054709.22181@netcom.com> ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey) writes:
>Am I missing something here?  Why is it that I seem to be the only person
>who thinks that MIME based e-mail packages can take on the very profitable,
>yet proprietary mass market e-mail packages like Microsoft Mail (aka Network
>Courier), Lotus cc:Mail, Da Vinci E-Mail, etc?

MIME is just a content encoding. The mail packages you mention are all 
transport mechanisms as well. So you would have to run MIME over something,
like POP2/POP3/IMAP2/IMAP3/..., and these protocols are not stable enough
to be attractive to many commercial vendors, I suspect. IMAP2bis is pretty
new and even now they seem to be talking about replacing it with something
from Carnegie-Mellon. Of course, each of these protocols is IP-based, which
has its own problems in the PC/Mac environment, such as requirements for
packet/NDIS/ODI drivers (and IP/IPX multiplexers if necessary, etc. etc.),
and RARP/BOOTP servers etc. And isn't MacTCP a commercial product?

What might be interesting is a PC-based MUA talking P7 and using MIME as
a content-encoding.