wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) (08/30/88)
CE Software demonstrated QuickMail for our user group... It is incredible! It is extremely powerful, easy to use, and inexpensive (around $200 for a 10 machine liscense-- I'm sure larger quantities run less). The most outstanding features of QuickMail include the ability to create your own graphic mail templates (phone in/out, note from desk of so-and-so, standard forms, etc...), the ease of creating, sending, and receiving mail (user interface is well done, with animated buttons/fields), and the ability to expand. CE mentioned that more than several of their beta sites were working on various interfaces to other mail systems. At MacWorld, they were demonstrating the unit to Unix Mail... QuickMail can also easily communicate with mail systems such as GEnie, CompuServe, and MCI Mail. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
lewis@beva.bev.lbl.gov (Steve Lewis) (08/31/88)
We have about 30 Macs on 3 AppleTalk networks connected together using Kinetics boxes+Ethernet. User acceptance of the user interface has been 100% -- including a lot of non-programmer types. We have had some hangups and crashes, associated with the network aspect only. CE has been very responsive, and we now have version 1.03; we expect version 1.04 in a week or so. This is a GREAT product, and the local Mac stores are selling it for $165 to the University community. Our greatest need now is for the bridge to Unix mail. We have been told that StarNine, a local Berkeley firm, is hard at work on it.