mikeb@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Byrne) (02/08/90)
We are currently installing six Netware 386 servers on campus.
We have been recommended cc:Mail as an appropriate E-Mail package.
1. Does anyone have any experience with this product ?
2. Is there an SMTP gateway available (under development ?) ?
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__________________________________________________________________________smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl) (02/08/90)
In article <759@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> mikeb@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Byrne) writes: >We are currently installing six Netware 386 servers on campus. >We have been recommended cc:Mail as an appropriate E-Mail package. > > 1. Does anyone have any experience with this product ? I used this package on a PC based network when I worked for the military. The network was a Nestar PLAN (Personal LAN) environment, which caters to *none* of the other PC style networks. On the other hand, it allowed booting off the network server and was reasonably fast. At any rate, that is the environment. The company that makes cc:Mail ported their code to this network, wrote a driver for it and then polished the code. We initially were running release 2.0 and then upgraded to 3.0 -- both were remarkably bug-free! Mostly enhancements to the software, not just bug-fixes. The software that we were using was *extremely* slick, fast and colorful (we had a base config on the machines of 8Mhz 286's, EGA and Multi-Sync monitors). The facilities for including files in messages (binary and so forth) were execellent. One drawback -- a maximum of 25 files in a single message. A pain when trying to get a lot of GIF files from one network account to the other... I don't know how the files were encapsulated -- I suspect that if you cannot ensure 8 bit data, you cannot ensure sending binaries all over creation... On our system (I am not sure if this is an artifact of having it on our special kind of network server or not) they mail storage area was a pre-created database of some type -- we endded up devoting a small (65 meg Plan 3000 fileserver) to dedicated mail handling -- it worked very well. Hopefully the company has continued their excellent software writing. I think that this is the single piece of PC based software that I really enjoyed using. Please send me any collection of responses that you get from the net. Thanks. > 2. Is there an SMTP gateway available (under development ?) ? As I understand it, they were working on a gateway into other mailing systems, but I do not have *any* experience with it at all. Sorry. >Mike Byrne PHONE: +61-8-228-5110 -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (smaug@eng.umd.edu) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */ /* UUCP: uunet!eng.umd.edu!smaug | phrase the question very carefully. */
lwilson@umabco.UUCP (Lowell G. Wilson) (02/09/90)
In article <759@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> mikeb@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Byrne) writes: >... > 2. Is there an SMTP gateway available (under development ?) ? I talked to a sales rep at cc:Mail yesterday and she told me that an SMTP gateway is under development and will be put into beta release next month. Her guess is that the product will be put into final release 2 months after that... -- Lowell Wilson : Sinecure III University of Maryland at Baltimore Information Resources Mgt Division UUCP: ...cvl!umabco!lwilson Internet: umabco!lwilson@cvl.umd.edu