[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] What are people using for POP based mail?

ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) (11/26/90)

What POP/SMTP based MS-DOS mail products are people using?  We
want to deploy a POP based mail system for PCs and Mac in the
next three months.  For the Mac we're looking at Tech Mail and
Eudora (sp?).  We need suggestions for the PC.  The perfect
product will work with the packet driver, cost nothing, include
source code, and be easy to use.

Thanks,

Steven Wallace
wallaces@ucs.indiana.edu
wallaces@iubacs.bitnet

vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) (11/26/90)

In article <8121@cica.cica.indiana.edu> ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) writes:

   What POP/SMTP based MS-DOS mail products are people using?  We
   want to deploy a POP based mail system for PCs and Mac in the
   next three months.  For the Mac we're looking at Tech Mail and
   Eudora (sp?).  We need suggestions for the PC.  The perfect
   product will work with the packet driver, cost nothing, include
   source code, and be easy to use.

If it is for "non commercial use" (or something like that) then the
KA9Q NOS package is all of those things.  Originally designed for use
with amateur radio, there is the Clarkson packet drivers for use with
most ethernet cards.  SMTP is built in but I believe that POP is an
optional package.  There is a mailing list for developers of the
package:

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It is available at several FTP sites.


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pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) (11/28/90)

On 26 Nov 90 00:56:46 GMT, ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) said:

ssw> What POP/SMTP based MS-DOS mail products are people using?  We
ssw> want to deploy a POP based mail system for PCs and Mac in the
ssw> next three months.  For the Mac we're looking at Tech Mail and
ssw> Eudora (sp?).  We need suggestions for the PC.  The perfect
ssw> product will work with the packet driver, cost nothing, include
ssw> source code, and be easy to use.

You really want to look at the new IMAP rel. 2 distribution from
Washington (Mark Crispin being one of the authors). It looks wonderful,
and it contains servers and clients for IMAP, POP2, POP3, on Unix, Next,
Mac and MSDOS.

It can be had from cac.wahington.edu, directory /imap. You also need to
get ccmd from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu, directory /ccmd; once you are
ftp'ing from columbia, you might also want to get their very
sophisticated mm unix mailer, which I have never used, but seems to be
very good, and is in directory /mm.
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