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In article <92865@bu.edu>, apollo@buengc.bu.edu (Doug A. Chan) writes:
|> 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.
|> 
I have just set up a group of laptops running UUPC as the MTA and PCELM
as the UA which is quite simple to use. UUPC allows batch up/down-loading
of mail over UUCP to a UNIX box. This all works quite well.


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