nao@cuatro.bellcore.com (Neil Ostroff) (08/30/89)
At Bellcore, e-mail is mainly provided by large computer center
machines (roughly 150 users/machine) and smaller lab machines
(roughly 30 users/machines) via uucp. This means PC and Mac
users need to periodically log into their computer center/lab
machine to send and receive mail. However, these users *knew*
there had to be a better way. After looking at the available
mail programs, I wasn't so sure. At least not until I used
POPmail and its POP2 server daemon from boombox.micro.umn.edu.
In my opinion, POPmail is excellent!! Since it uses a Hypercard
stack, it is easy to modify/customize the Mac interface. It is
fast, reliable, inexpensive (requires MacTCP: $100/copy or
$2500/site license), secure, well-documented, terrific. It also
includes a program called Nag, that alerts the user when new mail
has arrived (runs in the background under multifinder). If your
computing environment includes unix, check out POPmail - you
will be very pleasantly surprised.
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