charles@diemen.utas.oz.au (Charles A. Lakos) (05/31/90)
Mews (for Mail and News) is a Hypercard stack for reading and posting both mail and news using the MacTCP protocol driver. Mews communicates with mail and news servers provided on some mainframe computer or computers. Mail communication depends on the SMTP and POP (POP3 or POP2) protocols supported on the mail server, while news communication depends on the NNTP protocol (version 1.5 or later) supported on the news server. By utilising these protocols, a user need only have a POP mailbox account on the mail server rather than a full login account. All posting of mail or news is validated against the password for the POP account. Features of Mews: * one format of message cards for both mail and news items * one format of index cards for mail items, newsgroups, and subject list within a newsgroup * ability to save and recall messages to text files * ability to print messages with a standard banner * ability to perform save, recall, print, discard on multiple messages at a time * posting of news as opposed to mail is determined by the recipient of the message being one or more known newsgroups * ability to delete your own message from a newsgroup (having first been validated against the password for the POP account) * the handling of long messages (in excess of 30000 characters) by querying the user whether to discard excess characters or save direct to a text file Mews has been posted to comp.binaries.mac and the info-mac archives. It is also available by anonymous ftp as pub/mac/Mews_1.3.hqx from ftp.utas.edu.au (131.217.10.1). Charles Lakos charles@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of Tasmania Tasmania, Australia.