mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) (10/17/90)
Archive-name: imap-mailmanager/16-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) Original-subject: Re: Making NeXT mail compatible... Archive-site: ftphost.cac.washington.edu [128.95.112.1] Archive-directory: /imap Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Oct15.165251.27787@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko) writes: >Is there an easy way to make NeXT mail >compatible with the 80-column world? >Is there a simple fix? Can you set your mail >to not use proportional spacing for text display? Easy fix: punt on NeXT Mail and use MailManager (or EasyMail), available from via anonymous FTP from FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (128.95.112.1) on the "imap" directory. MailManager (not to be confused with the NeXT program of the same name) is an electronic mail user interface supporting local mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail and mail.txt (MM) format as well as remote mailboxes using the IMAP2 protocol of RFC-1176. MailManager supports an address book, a sophisticated mailbox search, and sophisticated message management. EasyMail is a simpler albeit compatible version intended for novices or first-time e-mail users. Unlike NeXT Mail, MailManager is designed with function and the ability to scale to large mailboxes (thousands of messages) as opposed to "cute" in mind. The current release is the July 1990 version. A new version will be released later this year supporting file attachments using RFC-1154 message encoding. _____ | ____ ___|___ /__ Mark ("Gaijin") Crispin "Gaijin! Gaijin!" _|_|_ -|- || __|__ / / R90/6 pilot, DoD #0105 "Gaijin ha doko?" |_|_|_| |\-++- |===| / / Atheist & Proud "Niichan ha gaijin." --|-- /| |||| |___| /\ (206) 842-2385/543-5762 "Chigau. Gaijin ja nai. /|\ | |/\| _______ / \ MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU Omae ha gaijin darou" / | \ | |__| / \ / \"Iie, boku ha nihonjin." "Souka. Yappari gaijin!" Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo tsukatte, umaku ikanaku temo shiranai yo.