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> I am currently working on an honours project which involves developing a 
> Multi-Media mailing system to run under X11 and unix. It will need to be
> fully compatible with our current system (ie with RFC-822).

> I would appreciate any information you could send me that you think would
> be of value. Eg. Information on current systems, names and sources of
> definitive papers, highly recommended books etc.

Well, with all modesty, let me suggest that you look at the papers on
the Andrew Message System (AMS).  AMS, which has been in use at Carnegie
Mellon University for several years, is a multimedia mail mail and
bulletin board system that is fully compatible with RFC 822, SMTP, etc.

Here's a list of references I have handy:

Nathaniel Borenstein, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg and Adam Stoller.
Architectural Issues in the Andrew Message System.
In IFIP WG 6.5 Working Conference on Message Handling Systems. Elsevier,
         1988.
October 10-12, 1988, Costa Mesa, CA.

Nathaniel Borenstein, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg and Adam Stoller.
A Multi-media Message System for Andrew.
In Proceedings of the USENIX Winter Conference.  USENIX Association,
         Dallas, TX, February, 1988.

Jonathan Rosenberg, Craig F. Everhart and Nathaniel S. Borenstein.
An Overview of the Andrew Message System.
In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '87 Workshop: Frontiers in Computer
         Communications Technology.  ACM, Stowe, VT, August, 1987.

In addition, you should look at the Diamond System (now known as Slate)
done at BBN.  This is the only reference I have handy, but I think Terry
Crowley reads this list (Terry: you out there?) and he can provide
additional references.

 Robert H. Thomas, Harry C. Forsdick, Terrence R. Crowley, Richard W. Schaaf,
     Raymond S. Tomlinson and Virginia M. Travers
Diamond: A Multimedia Message System Built on a Distributed Architecture
IEEE Computer, (18/12), December, 1985

> Thanks,
>   Steven Sommer

Have fun.

JR