awy@concurrent.co.uk (Alan Young) (05/26/88)
We are looking for a TCP/IP package for IBMPCs (and compats.) that supports SMTP and a mail user interface. The user interface is quite important. We have been using the BM i/f of the KA9Q package as an experiment, but although nice (and free) it is rather lacking. If you have experience of any of the available SMTP-supporting implementations for PCs (e.g. FTP 2.02, FUSION, IBM V1.1, Stanford 3.0 or WIN/TCP 3.2 as reported in the Pc/Ip scorecard revision 4 in this newsgroup), in particular the user interfaca, then please mail me a short review. I will post a summary of responses to this group. Alan Young. (awy@concurrent.co.uk -- or -- ...!uunet!concurrent.co.uk!awy)
KCM@BYUADMIN.BITNET (Kelly McDonald) (05/29/88)
We have taken the BM implementation that comes with ka9q and considerably
enhanced it so that it now seems quite workable. (with one notable
exception)
1. cleaned up the user interface so that it works consistently.
2. implemented multi-user support and security so it works in a
novell lan environment.
3. converted to microsoft C.
4. implemented local delivery so that mail for lan users is delivered
directly to the local mailbox.
5. We have enhanced the SMTP portion of ka9q to implement delivery errors
to remote sites, as well as retry on delivery errors in case a remote
site is down.
The one thing we haven't implemented yet is delivery to multiple
recipients.