Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed

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From: Dan Heller
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:57

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> On Aug 27, 11:40pm, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> Take a look at Zmail, from the guys that gave the world mush ...
...
> One BIG gripe.  (Had to be one didn't there... :)
> 
> Licensing is seriously hosed for a person that wants to buy mush for
> themselves.  It's locked to a machine, I think it's the IP address or 
> the ethernet address or something stupid like that.
> 
> If you're a single user, wanting to spring for a mail package that you can
> run on multiple machines, then zmail is not for you, it sucks rocks.

This was totally true for 2.0, but is only partially true for version 2.1.
Version 2.1 has a network license server that allows you to run zmail on any
machine on a network.  The license server is locked to a host, but the zmail
itself isn't.

  --dan

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Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
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