Re: the mail problem

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From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:56

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mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes:
|SLIP system I use assigns me a different IP address each time dial in.   
|This means that I need another solution for mail.

|I have several options to solve the mail problem, none of which I know  
|much about.  There's UUCP, POP, an app called MailManager, and I've just  
|read that SLIP commander has a "retrieve mail" function. 

  I've used MailManager and EasyMail(which use imap, a pop-like
protocol) from NeXTs with some sucess, and can recommend it.
  It's especially good in that it will happily interwork with other
pop/imap mail services, and **doesn't trap me** into only being able
to read my mail from a single machine: the NeXT with my mailbox on it
(:-()
  Besides, it speaks MIME

--dave (I have a translator from next to mime) c-b


-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | York Postmaster and
CANADA. 416-223-8968  | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.

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Subject: Re: the mail problem
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