Recommendations on DOS + Unix e-mail packages

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From: Doug A. Chan
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:04

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I'm currently looking for a way to integrate e-mail between several
platforms and different connectivity...

Here's what I need to integrate:
1.  Desktop MS-DOS machines on a network (all running PC-NFS w/a Unix server).
2.  Unix (SCO to be specific) machines which are also on the network.
    No central NFS server for these machines.  The mail-agent is MMDF
    although SMTP can also be installed on all machines.
3.  Laptop & notebook DOS-based machines.  Users will dial in and
    batch download e-mail and upload e-mail to a Unix machine.  Note,
    these users will NOT be reading mail while on-line, it has to be
    xfer'd to/from the laptop.
*** On #1 and #3, the mail software MUST be _really_ user friendly
*** and completely fool-proof.  Most users on these machines are quite
*** naive and telling 'em to just telnet to a Unix machine to use 'mail'
*** and edit on emacs or vi is a big no-no!

Getting #1 and #2 to work doesn't seem too bad... I'm guessing cc:mail
should work??  Any other packages?
Getting #3 to work might be a small problem.

Ideally, the user interface should be the same on both the network and
dial-in DOS machines.

Please e-mail or post your suggestions!

Thanks,
-Doug
apollo@buengc.bu.edu

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