cmorgan@mntgfx.mentor.com (Clark Morgan) (03/15/89)
Hello. I'd like to tap the net.knowledge to determine what E-Mail
packages are currently available for Apollo workstations. I am
aware of the following:
DPSS - Apollo's package.
Mentor Mail - Mentor's package.
MH - The well-known MH mail system, distributed with
SR10.x, in the /usr/new/mh directory.
Unix Mail - BSD or SYS5.
I'd like your feedback on these packages(*) and/or a list of any
mailers I've omitted. I'll gladly accept critiques from anyone,
but if you're using mail in a large network environment (say,
200+ nodes), I especially want to hear from you. Also, I haven't
used DPSS and feedback on this product will be appreciated.
Thanks very much for your time. I'll be happy to summarize the
replies I receive for anyone who's similarly interested.
- CM
(*) You can skip assessments of Mentor Mail, I'm quite familiar
with this package :-).
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cmorgan@mntgfx.mentor.com OR ...!tektronix!tessi!mntgfx!cmorgandennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel) (03/16/89)
> Hello. I'd like to tap the net.knowledge to determine what E-Mail > packages are currently available for Apollo workstations. We are using BSD Mail and sendmail with connections to the outside world through an Ethernet SMTP gateway. It works, but at SR9.7 there is a bug which has kept the number of Apollo mail receivers down to about 10 (out of a possible 40 -- the rest continue to use a BSD VAX for mail). The bug is due to a locking problem: if you happen to be starting Mail, quitting it, or otherwise updating your spool file, and if your node is not the one that sendmail is running on, then sendmail sees that your spool file is locked and returns the mail to the sender with an error message. Very annoying! Does anyone know if this problem has been fixed in SR10.1? Dennis Cottel Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152 (619) 553-1645 dennis@nosc.MIL sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis
cmorgan@mntgfx.mentor.com (Clark Morgan) (03/30/89)
I think I have received all of the replies that I'm going
to get from the network regarding E-mail packages available
for Apollos. If you want a summary, drop me a note.
Thanks to everyone who spent the time to send me a
critique/recommendation.
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Clark O. Morgan -- Mentor Graphics Corp.
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