shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) (10/16/89)
A customer of mine wants to do nice E-mail on his SCO/386 2.3.1 system, but has users of, shall we say, less than room-temperature, IQ. What we'd like is a mailer with a nice front end to allow them to send mail around the system. I've seen the 'mush' shell, but it seems AWFULLY slow, and not as easy to use as some systems I've seen (the AOM II+ mail manager for the Altos systems comes to mind. Straight forward, and easy to use). I'd prefer PD, but if someone knows of an INEXPENSIVE commercial mailer, that'd be fine too. /--------------------+ 'The shortest distance +------------------\ | Dave Shevett | between two puns is a | Labyrinth II BBS | | shevett@labii.UUCP | straight line...' | W. Trenton, NJ | \--------------------+ - Doc Webster +------------------/
david@oldcolo.UUCP (David Hughes Jr) (10/23/89)
Dave,
I have written an extensive email program that runs from IBM, out a modem,
and works thru an SCO/386 system.
From your message I wasn't able to discern whether the email program
you are looking for runs inside Xenix, or you come in from the outside.
If from the outside and interested, email back to me (or call
{719} 473-1898) to query more.
Briefly, the software allows automatic retrieval of email, read, reread,
save in a CHRON file, print it. . . and send mail, either a created
message on the fly, or a prepared text file in a wordprocessor (needs
to be saved in ascii of course before send), and also the ability
to save this outgoing mail in a CHRON file. The program also has
a utilities ability, allowing one to change passwords, install to
a new disc area, things like that.
As I mentioned, am not sure where the program you are looking for is to
reside, but if from DOS, I have code already working with little
heartburn that runs to SCO and I feel due to the way I wrote it, is
portable to other Unix systems too.
Oh, one other thought: it allows a user to address a message to one or up to
9 individuals, or with the alias mail command, groups make it that much
better.
david hughes