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Netters,

I am interested in getting people's comments/input on various 
email systems operating in NON-PC-based network enviroments under 
Windows 3.0 (i.e. not Novell, etc).  

First let me describe my environment.  My PC is connected to a Sun
network via an ethernet connection and I have PC-NFS (not the latest 
release [3.5?], but from what I've seen on the net alas even this upgrade 
won't put PC-NFS fully into the Windows 3.0 environment...:-( ).  

Anyway, I would like to send/receive email from within windows to/from 
the Suns as well as through a gateway connected to the Sun disk server.
I would like the interface for such a program to be windows-compatible,
and ideally it would have (e.g.) asynchronous on-screen notification of 
incoming mail and allow the use of my normal word processor (WfW) for 
message composition.

Any thoughts?  I have heard that Sun has (or will have) an email system 
that apparently works with PC NFS (I can'tremember the name...), but I 
suspect that it may run in a DOS window, and wouldn't be a "standard"
application (corrections/comments?).  I've heard of the DaVinci email 
system, and have some literature on this product...are there people
who have comments on it's operation in similar environments and info
on hardware/software requirements?  Microsoft just announced a new 
email product for use under windows, but it's not obvious from their
ads (waiting for literature...) what hardware/software would be required 
for use in an environment like my own.

Please respond via email. If there is sufficient interest, I will 
post a summary to the net.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Scott Lewis

Email:  slewis@hound.att.com