jenner@post.ntu.edu.au (05/01/91)
First of all, many thanks to the following netters: Mark H. Anbinder,Seymor Joseph, Madeline Morrow, David C. Kovar, Rod Van Cooten, Lloyd Taylor, Robin Goldstone, Dick Dramstad, Eric Behr and Bill Woodcock. My apologies if I have missed anyone who responded. The 3 main contenders for bridging QuickMail to SMTP (using TCP/IP) appear to be: BeaverGate, GatorMail (alias StarNine alias MailLink-SMTP) and SMTP/QM. I will try to summarise the information I received.This is *my* interpretation of the received info, I hope no-one feels misquoted. Views ranged from "works faultlessly" to "got it going eventually". in all cases. 1. BeaverGate cost: nil available from: madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca I tried BeaverGate and found to my dismay that it will not work on anything less than an 030 box. Apparently there are some embedded 68030 calls. As we are not wealthy enough to waste a Mac II clunking away on mail serving, I'll have to give it a miss. There is also a rumor that BeaverGate may not be supported in future, can someone either verify or scotch this? 2. GatorMail-Q cost: ~US$2000 or AUS$7000 for a Uni. site license. available from StarNine (2126 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710) or Cayman (sorry, I don't have the address). GatorMail was highly regarded in most replies. The difference between US and Australian prices is puzzling (OZ$ is about 77c US). I am trying to find out who is making the big profit, but this is probably not the place to debate "gray-marketing". 3. SMTP/QM cost: US$600 AUS$800 (till June 30 then goes up ~$200) for site license. Available from: Information Electronics (infoelect@rubicon.ie.com) or in OZ, ring Ron Reavley 06 2810102. Opinions on this software were also good. I have not seen GatorMail or SMTP/QM working and have not been able to get evaluation copies in either case (TCP connect II were happy to send us evaluation copies, why can't the others ?) so we have bitten the bullet and ordered SMTP/QM. I will express an opinion after we have used it for a few weeks. Cheers, Bob Jenner, Computing Department Northern Territory University PO Box 40146, Casuarina NT, Australia, 0811
LEO@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU (Leo Wierzbowski) (05/01/91)
Bob posted: "I tried BeaverGate and found to my dismay that it will not work on anything less than an 030 box." I'm running BeaverGate 0.87b6 on a Mac II (the original 68020 one). It does not run on 68000 Macs. Sincerely, Leo
drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) (05/10/91)
References:<1991May1.090933.898@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <28342@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> In article <28342@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> LEO@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU (Leo Wierzbowski) writes: > Bob posted: "I tried BeaverGate and found to my dismay that it will not > work on anything less than an 030 box." > > I'm running BeaverGate 0.87b6 on a Mac II (the original 68020 one). It > does not run on 68000 Macs. I'm running BeaverGate 0.87 on a 4MB Mac Plus. It works OK, but does crash every week or two. I've ordered Information Electronics' SMTP/QM bridge. David Gutierrez drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard