berger@datacube.UUCP (08/05/86)
So what's the story with ATT Mail? Is it available on any Unix machine
other than 3B2's? I'm interested in having it on our Pyramid 90x.
Do people like it? Is it usefull? How does it compare to MCI Mail or
Compuserve and such?
We are considering using it to consolidate our telex traffic as well as
a mechanism to support our reps and sales people in the field.
It also looks like it has a better user i/f for normal humans than the
traditional Unix mailers.
By the way. Why does it seem that when ever I talk to ATT sales/support
people, they seem to have know idea what's going on? I've been trying to
find out if the ATT Mail PMX software is available on general Unix machines
and have gotten a tremendous run-around.
Bob Berger
Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644
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{seismo,cbosgd,cuae2,mit-eddie}!mirror!datacube!bergerdyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (08/08/86)
I looked to see if the AT&T PMX software was available for anything other
than the 3B series, and finally was able to get a tentative "no" from the
customer support staff at AT&T Mail. Of course, the AT&T Mail service
doesn't depend on this software.
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Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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Thought I would synopsize the responses I got to my request for info
on AT&T Mail and PMX.
Mail is an email service that allows people to send and recive mail
for a charge. You don't need unix to use it, packages (ACCESS) are
available for various PC's including IBM clones and Mac's. You can
even get your mail by calling on the phone and having a synthetic
voice read it to you. If you have a dumb terminal, you can log into
a central system. If you do have unix, you can access ATT MAIL via
uucp.
PMX is a package that has a uniform user interface. These are the
packages effectivly allow you to have a mail server internally. This
mail server then communicates to the ATT Mail system.
PMX is currently only available on ATT 3B family computers though it
sounds like it may be made available on other machines thru their
manufactures or 3rd parties.
PMX is kind of pricy (from my point of view). ATT Mail is not to bad
80 cents for 7500 characters. You can use it as a gateway to Telex
for 70 cents per telex minute.
I like that we can use our existing unix utilities (mail, editors,
uucp) with it. We can get our sales reps and field people to get the
Access software for their PC's and stay in touch via email.
We can do all our telex from our unix systems as well.
People have said they had a few glitches getting mail up if they had
4.?BSD but they weren't bad. Also there was some minor glitches in
how telex numbers were set up. ATT domestic telex addresses have two
extra digits, apparently to differentiate the carrier.
Other people complained about the lack of knowledgeable people who
answer the phones at ATT. I finally got a call from a person in the
know. I presume he was prodded to call by my original posting. He was
very knowledgeable and helpful.
Bob Berger
Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644
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