From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Mail Systems: Which one to choose?
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:13:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc

In article <BuDEr2.FL5@cs.dal.ca>, franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
wrote:
> 
> In article <92248.101936A43345@TRMETU.BITNET> A43345@TRMETU.BITNET writes:
> >    we can upgrade the MS Mail to 3.0 or we can choose another mail system.
> >    (Quick Mail, ...).  So, which one to choose?We need a comparison
> >    considering price, user number vs price , efficiency, etc..
> >        Thanks.
> 
> and which of these are compatible with DOS mailreaders? I too am in a
> predicament where ~30 macs are ethernetted together and accessible
> through internet. However, we have to be able to interact with DOS 
> machines as well. Can you think of an appopriate configuration?

The following are Internet-compatible mail solutions for Macintoshes.

COMMERCIAL

  TCP/Connect II (InterCon, kdb@intercon.com)
    Integrated mail/news/telnet/ftp/....  Works over MacTCP, own TCP, or 
    dialup (SLIP). Mail uses POP3.

  uAccess (ICE Engineering, time@ice.com)
    UUCP package, includes mail/news/uucp.
    
  GatorMail (Cayman Systems, info@cayman.com)
    Gateways for Microsoft Mail and Quickmail.
  
  Dispatcher (Intercon, kdb@intercon.com)
    Gateway for QuickMail

TokenWare

  MacMH (networking@jessica.stanford.edu)
    POP3 mail package.  Uses MacTCP.

ShareWare

  LeeMail ($10, laf@mitre.org)
    Pure SMTP mail program.  Uses MacTCP
  
  FernMail ($20, dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us)
    Mail program.  Works with UUPC, gnuucp or UUMac (an unreleased uupc
port)


FreeWare

  MacPost (ftp.lu.se)
    Mail server that runs on a Macintosh, mail clients talk to server over
    AppleTalk.  Speaks SMTP to the internet.
    
  POPMail II (boombox.micro.umn.edu)
    POP2/POP3/SMTP mail package.  Uses MacTCP.

  TechMail (net-dist.mit.edu)
    POP3/SMTP mail package.  Uses MacTCP.  Compatible with Kerberos.

  Mailstrom (treister@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU)
    IMAP/SMTP mail package.  Uses MacTCP.

  MacPOP (ftp.cc.berkeley.edu)
    HyperCard-based POP3/SMTP mail package.  Uses MacTCP.

  Eudora (ftp.cso.uiuc.edu)
    POP3/SMTP mail package.  Uses MacTCP, dialup (Communications Toolbox)
    or UUPC (and probably gnuucp).
  
  UUPC (dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us)
    UUCP package.
  
  gnuucp (jim@fpr.com)
    UUCP package.  Includes mail program.

If an email address is listed, send inquiries to that address.  If a host
name is listed, use anonymous ftp.

(Authors:  if I've mangled or missed your product, contact, or ftp
site, please let me know.)

GLOSSARY

  IMAP - keeps you mail permanently on a "big" computer, but
    lets you access it over the internet.
  POP - Post Office Protocol; your mail waits on a "big" computer
    until your Mac picks it up.
  POP2 - The old version of POP.
  POP3 - The new version of POP.
  SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; how mail gets around the Internet.
    Requires the machines that talk it to be up most of the time.
  UUCP - Unix to Unix CoPy.  Dialup file transfer protocol; news and mail
    are normally layered on top of it.  Used by sites without Internet
    connections.
  MacTCP - Software that lets a Mac speak to the Internet.
  SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol.  Software that lets a Mac speak
    to the Internet over a dialup line.

--
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.