winslett@widor.cs.unc.edu (Michael Winslett) (11/10/90)
A while ago, I requested information on QuickMail<->SMTP gateways for QuickMail version 2.2, promising to summarize to the net anything that I learned. Here is my long-delayed summary. I thank all of you who responded (assuming you can remember who you are. :-) ) GatorMail-Q from Cayman Systems: Several people responded about this software and seemed to be having good luck with it. It is able to handle QuickMail file enclosures sent through the gateway to SMTP by encoding them and attaching them to the message. I believe that if the the message is destined for another QuickMail mailcenter and goes through another GatorMail-Q gateway to get there, the encoded file is automatically decoded and attached to the QuickMail message as a regular enclosure. A site license is available. BeaverGate from the University of Toronto: This is a public domain gateway available by anonymous ftp from madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca. It works well, though the version I have has some limitations. File enclosurres from QuickMail going through the gateway are automatically BinHexed and attached to the message, but no effort is made to decode these files automatically even if the message goes through another BeaverGate gateway to a QuickMail mailcenter. Also, the version I have (0.85) cannot support QuickMail mailcenters in different AppleTalk zones, though I understand that this has been fixed in version 0.87. BeaverGate requires multifinder because it works in conjunction with two other processes to handle the sending and receiving of SMTP messages. BeaverGate has been quite reliable, and I understand that file enclosure may be handled better in future releases. I also received some information about other QuickMail gateways: UMCP\QM from Information Electronics - allows a QuickMail mailcenter to exchange mail with a Unix host via UUCP. MailGate/QM by Alisa - a QuickMail<->VMS (DECnet) gateway. Thanks again to all who responded. If anyone would like additional information, I will be happy to provide what I can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael E. Winslett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill winslett@cs.unc.edu Department of Computer Science (919) 962-1710 Sitterson Hall #121