Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,comp.answers,news.answers Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!news.cerf.net!nntp2.cerf.net!shrike.irvine.com!jsweet From: mime-faq@ics.uci.edu (MIME FAQ maintainer) Subject: comp.mail.mime FAQ, part 2 of 3 (frequently asked questions list) Content-Type: message/partial; number=2; total=3; id="" References: Followup-To: comp.mail.mime Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Originator: jsweet@fester.irvine.com Sender: usenet@irvine.com (News Administration) Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Irvine Compiler Corp., Irvine, California, USA Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 06:29:25 GMT Supersedes: Message-ID: Summary: This posting contains answers to some of the Frequently Asked Questions about MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). Please read it before posting a question to comp.mail.mime. Expires: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:30:01 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mime-faq@ics.uci.edu (MIME FAQ maintainer) Lines: 1907 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.mail.mime:6542 comp.answers:12970 news.answers:48022 Archive-Name: mail/mime-faq/part2 Version: $Id: mime2,v 3.13 1995/05/13 22:26:15 jsweet Rel $ Posting-Frequency: monthly -- ========================================================== comp.mail.mime frequently asked questions list (FAQ) (2/3) ========================================================== Part 2: MIME products ~~~~~~ -- Overview -------- This is part 2 of a Frequently Asked Questions document about MIME, the multipurpose and multi-media standard for Internet mail. Part 1 covers frequently asked questions. Part 2 is a listing of MIME products. Part 3 covers advanced topics. The usual disclaimers apply; you know what they are: no endorsements implied, no warranty, no safety, no nuthin'! :-) -- 7) Freely available MIME software packages ------------------------------------------ This section lists MIME-capable or MIME-enabling libraries, conversion tools, extension packages, mail user agents, and mail transport systems. Tools that are explicitly designed for handling MIME in USENET news are discussed in section 9, although many of the packages in this section also deal with USENET news. -------------------------------- 7.1) Libraries and Patches Name: c-client Product: MUA library code Platform: Unix, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows, TOPS-20, VAX/VMS Where: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z Author: Mark Crispin Comments: [ comp.mail.misc FAQ ] Software writers only: c-client is a general library useful for creating MUA's. It provides a Application Program Interface for retrieving and manipulating mail messages. It supports the latest draft of MIME. It is driver based, and easily ported to new platforms and MTAs. The currently supported platforms include various versions of BSD and SysV Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh and even TOPS-20(!). It supports mailboxes in various local file formats (e.g. Unix mbox, mail.txt, mh, mmdf), as well as remote mailbox access via the NNTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols. This is done transparently so the main program is normally not aware what kind of mailbox it is accessing. c-client does not contain any user interface. Rather, it contains everything else that goes into an MUA. c-client is called with such functions as mail_open(), mail_fetchheader(), mail_setflag(), etc. Just the thing if you want to write a new MUA. c-client is distributed as part of the University of Washington IMAP toolkit, and includes POP2, POP3, and IMAP2 (IMAP4 support is coming soon) client and server code. However, c-client does not require IMAP or POP, and can be built without these. Contact the author (Mark Crispin ) for technical questions. Name: FITS-v2 Product: xv patch Platform: Where: ftp://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/pub/aips/xv/FITS-v2.tar.Z Author: [ Patrick P. Murphy 15-Nov-1994 ] This is a patch to xv that permits it to read and write FITS files. Granted it's probably not capable of digesting, say, a UV database from AIPS, but for most FITS images it seems to work reasonably well. I've used this to patch both xv versions 2 and 3 successfully. Were you to have this, it would then be possible to view the image by clicking on the URL/link, viewing it in xv, and then using xv's save function to save it to a local disk. I have not used this mode of operation extensively, and it's not at all clear how much of the header would be preserved beyond the bare essentials, but it's a start. If you just want "pretty pictures" it's definitely a good method. Another option would be to use the .mailcap to specify: image/fits; saoimage %s Sorry, I don't know how to make the system recognise a binary file, though I'm sure it's possible. Name: mimelite Product: library Platform: ANSI C Where: ftp://oslonett.no/Software/MsDos/Kommunikasjon/Offline/mimelt20.zip Author: Gisle Hannemyr Comments: [ Gisle Hannemyr 20-May-1994 ] "mimelite" is a simple, lightweight library written in ANSI C that supports the parsing of MIME headers and encoding/decoding of body parts, suitable for inclusion in offline-readers. If you develop mail and newsreader software (user agents), you can link mimelite with your own program to make it support a significant subset of MIME (namely the Content-Transfer-Encodings 7BIT, 8BIT, BASE64 and QUOTED-PRINTABLE). mimelite also supports conversion between the ISO Latin 1 character set used for European character sets on USENET/Internet and PC-based character sets (e.g. Macintosh, IBM CP-437 and CP-850). The distribution archive also contains UNMIME, a standalone program to decode MIMEd messages encoded with BASE64 or QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding. The mimelite library is general enough to work in a number of contexts, but it has been designed to work well on MS-DOS (where memory is a scarce resource). Its main application is intended to help extend MS-DOS-based "offline-readers" for RFC-822 and RFC-1036 conformant messages to also support RFC-1521 and RFC-1522. -------------------------------- 7.2) Conversion tools and extension packages Name: emil Product: tool Platform: Unix Where: ftp://ftp.uu.se/pub/unix/networking/mail/emil/ Where: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/mail/emil/ Author: Martin Wendel Comments: [ Martin Wendel 8-Apr-1994 ] Emil is a tool for converting between message formats used by MIME, Eudora, SUN mailtool, PC and Mac based clients, etc. It is easily extensible. It can work either standalone, as an argument driven filter program, or, if linked with sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5 or sendmail-8.6.8, as a mail gateway convertering messages sent between various types of Internet mail clients. It will give a possibility to convert encoding formats of attachments and convert character sets of text. It can make a heterogenous mail environment, consisting of various types of mail clients, act as a homogenous environment; for instance sending only MIME based messages to the outside world. Name: encdec Product: tool Platform: ISO C Where: ftp://ftp.efd.lth.se/pub/mail/encdec.c.gz Author: Joergen Haegg Comments: encdec is a simple standalone encoder/decoder for base64 and quoted printable written in ISO C. Name: Enriched text valider Product: tool Platform: Unix (easily portable) Author: Daniel Glazman Contact: Daniel.Glazman@der.edf.fr Where: ftp://lara0.exp.edf.fr/pub/MIME/testEnriched.c [ Daniel Glazman 13-Oct-1994 ] This tool is a text/enriched valider useable in conjunction with the 'test' field of a mailcap file (for instance). Written in std C, its code has been made *very* simple and readable on purpose, even if it can be optimized. It detects unbalanced closing tags, illegal tags, tags longer than 60 chars and <<. Provided with the standard "as is" copyright notice. /*Enjoy !*/ Name: exmh Product: MUA Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/exmh/exmh-1.5.1.tar.Z Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/exmh-1.5.1.tar.gz Author: Contact: "Brent Welch" Comments: [ "Larry W. Virden" 13-Aug-1994 ] A Tk based UI to MH. Supports nested folders, MIME/metamail. Name: metamail Product: MUA and tools Platform: Unix Amiga MS-DOS Where: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z The metamail distribution that Nathaniel Borenstein supports. Where: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/contrib2.7.tar.Z Contributed sources. Where: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.dos.zip MS-DOS binaries Author: Nathaniel Borenstein Comments: [ Paul Eggert ] Metamail is a software implementation of MIME, designed for easy integration with traditional mail-reading interfaces -- typically, users do not invoke metamail directly. Ideally, extending the local e-mail or news system to handle a new media format is a simple matter of adding a line to a mailcap file. Mailcap files are described in RFC 1343. [ Nathaniel Borenstein 9-Jan-1993 ] The metamail distribution includes a simple "mailserver" shell script that can be used to operate a MIME-conformant mail server mechanism, e.g. for making anon-ftp files available as MIME mail. ServiceMail is also now available under the "contrib" area of the metamail distribution. [ Jerry Sweet 10-Oct-1994 ] The "richtext" program in the metmail distribution has an undocumented command line option, "-e", which turns it into a viewer for text/enriched, the successor to text/richtext. Name: Mew (Message interface to Emacs Window) Product: MUA Platform: Emacs/Mule/XEmacs Where: ftp://ftp.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/pub/Misc/mew/mew-current.tar.gz Author: Kazuhiko YAMAMOTO Comments: [ Kazuhiko YAMAMOTO 14-Oct-1994 ] Mew (Message interface to Emacs Window) is a message interface to Emacs/Mule that integrates structured message such as MIME, PEM, and PGP. Mew is now based on MH but will support USENET news soon. Currently, following features are supported. * Selective MIME part viewer. * User friendly MIME composer that maps directory structure to multipart. * PEM auto decryption and functions for encrypting and signing. * PGP auto decryption and functions for encrypting and singing. * LRU message cache engine. * Only SPC key press interface. * Asynchronous inc and scan. * Dynamic window configuration. * Excellent refile folder guess algorithm. * Alias completion and expansion. * Easy pick and scan interface. * Mark based functions that treats multiple messages(e.g. unshar, uumerge). You should pronouns "Mew" as it is. Of course, it is meow of cat. P.S. You can find PEM/PGP/MIME integration information on 00faq in Mew's package. Name: MHonArc Product: HTML conversion tool Platform: Unix Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html/MHonArc1.0.0.tar.gz Author: Earl Hood [ Earl Hood 2-Oct-1994 ] MHonArc is a Perl program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and RFC 1521 (MIME) to HTML. MHonArc can perform the following tasks: * Convert mh(1) mail folders or mail(1) style mailboxes into an HTML mail archive. * Add new e-mail messages to an existing HTML mail archive generated by MHonArc. * Convert a single message to HTML. An index page is created when an archive is generated. MHonArc allows complete customization over the appearance of the index page including the ability to insert user defined HTML markup and content-type sensitive icons for the mail messages processed. For details refer to http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.doc.html The x-types handled by MHonArc are listed in section 3 of this FAQ. Name: MIME for VM/CMS Product: Platform: VM/CMS Where: gopher://ricevm1.rice.edu Author: Comments: [ Rick Troth 21-Jul-1993 ] This MIME decoder is available via Gopher from ricevm1.rice.edu under "Other freely distributable CMS software", which is under "CMS Gopher Software". It correctly reads: o text/plain, o text/richtext, and o image/gif. GIFs require the VMGIF package from Belgium. I need filters for PBM and PGM and then they'd work too. Sounds are not useful on the standard 3270 terminal (dumb terminals just don't play sounds). It splits out multipart/[anything] into separate files. CMS has a standard directory "browser" (FILELIST) that lets you view a bunch of related files and decide what, if anything, you want to do with them. Message/external-body doesn't work well, but probably will given more development time. I could use some samples to help with the debugging of that part. It does NOT do applications, except for the one, octet-stream. (which is treated as a kind-of "sendfile" utility) There *is* a PostScript interpreter for CMS, but it is reported to be a dog (we don't have it). But I do hope to put the extraction code in for these eventually. If a given content-type isn't understood, you just view the item as-is. For composition, there's no CHARSET= parameter on the Content-Type: text/plain line. It's EBCDIC until it gets into SMTP, then it's ASCII, then it might be anything, so I've left off the CHARSET= parameter. An "attach" command is added to RiceMAIL when you run this, which would then change the message from text/plain to multipart/mixed and append the attachment after a boundary. Attachments don't "close" properly; that is, the final boundary isn't correct, but is correctly processed by all of the MIME compliant readers I've checked. (there's some feature of RiceMAIL that causes this) This thing is based on CMS Pipelines, so adding features is easy since we now have the base for MIME processing. Name: MIME tools for GNU Emacs Product: MUA Platform: Unix Where: ftp://ftp.kyutech.ac.jp/pub/MultiMedia/mime/emacs-mime-tools.shar Author: Masanobu UMEDA Comments: [ Masanobu UMEDA 07-Aug-1993 ] MIME tools that consist of "mime.el", "rmailmime.el" and "metamail.el" are tools for reading and composition of MIME messages for GNU Emacs and its variants. "mime.el" is a simple MIME message composer that works with mail mode, news mode, and mhe letter mode. Messages of plain and richtext text, audio, and image, and multipart messages of them can be composed by using "mime.el". "rmailmime.el" is for reading MIME messages within Rmail. "metamail.el" is an interface to metamail. The metamail package is required by these tools. Name: MIME tools for NeXT Product: editor Platform: NeXT Where: Author: Dave Lacey Comments: [ Dave Lacey ] I'd like to keep you apprised of some MIME work I'm doing. I'm interested in using MIME as a transport medium for multi-media gopher documents. My particular use is for Radiology info, but it would work for just about anything. I've got a NeXT Gopher client almost working and I also have a NeXT based MIME file editor that reads/creates MIME documents. Both work, but need a bit more extension. I will likely distribute the source to this, so the MIME reader (which is essentially an object) can be re-used in other apps. Name: mpack Product: MUA/utility Platform: Unix, MS-DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, Amiga, Archimedes Contact: mpack-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack-1.5-src.tar.Z Sources for all versions Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack15d.zip MS-DOS binaries Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack15o.zip OS/2 binaries Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack-1.5-mac.hqx Macintosh binary Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack-1.5-amiga.lha Amiga binaries Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack-1.5-arc.arc Archimedes binaries Where: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/mpack-1.5-linux.tar.gz Linux binaries Author: John Gardiner Myers, Chris Newman (Mac), Mike Meyer (Amiga), Peter Simons (Amiga), Jochen Friedrich (OS/2), Olly Betts (Archimedes) Comments: [ John Gardiner Myers 16-Feb-1995 ] Mpack is a minimal implementation of MIME, designed for encoding and decoding binary files in MIME messages. In short, it is the MIME equivalent of uuencode and uudecode. For backwards compatibility, it can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format. The Macintosh port can also handle AppleSingle, AppleDouble, and BinHex. Starting with version 1.5, all official mpack distributions are PGP signed by "John Gardiner Myers ". The PGP signatures are detached from the distributions themselves, in files with the ".asc" filename extension. [ Arjan van der Meer 30-Jan-1995 ] There is now a version of mpack/munpack for the Atari ST and compatibles. It is just a compiled version of the UNIX 1.2 version, but what I've tried worked okay. It is made by alex@hal.rhein-main.de. MPACK/MUNPACK Atari ST binary - ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/atari/misc/mpack_12.lzh Name: n2m Product: conversion tool Platform: NeXT Where: ftp://nexus.yorku.ca/pub/n2m.shar Author: Comments: [ Dave Collier-Brown 04-Jan-1993 ] Nn2m is a program that converts a file containing a NeXT-format multimedia message into a file containing a MIME-format multimedia message. It is usable on Berkeley-derived systems, or ones otherwise using /usr/lib/sendmail as a mail transfer agent. It is in use on SunOS 4.1.1 and Ultrix 4.2, tested briefly on Aix 3.2 and NeXT. Description: it is used with non-NeXT mail user agents to convert NeXT mail to MIME, which is intelligible to more than just the NeXT mail program. The resulting file will usually be more intelligible to non-multimedia mail user agents. The textual part of the mail is converted into text, as well as Microsoft RTF, and the attachments follow, as text/plain wherever possible, as base64 encoded binaries otherwise. This suffices for messages with ASCII files pasted into them. Caveat: This is a converter, not a translator: the conversion of sound and of the initial "index.rft" file is not correctness- preserving. Name: Safe-TCL (Enabled Mail) Product: extension package Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mrose/safe-tcl/safe-tcl.tar.Z Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mrose/safe-tcl/safe-tcl-contrib.tar.Z Author: Marshall T. Rose Contact: safe-tcl-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: [ "Larry W. Virden" 13-Aug-1994 ] Incoming email processing tool based on Tcl. Software also available which can build MIME messages and send them. Incoming email processing includes ability to execute encapsulated Tcl programs at delivery or upon viewing. [ Jerry Sweet 5-Sep-1994 ] Papers about Enabled Mail and Safe-TCL are available from these sources: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/em-model.txt ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.ps ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.txt Name: sd-launch Product: extension package Platform: Where: http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/fenner/dist/sd-launch/ Where: ftp://ee.lbl.gov/conferencing/sd/ Where: ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/net-research/ Author: Contact: fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (William C. Fenner) Comments: [ "Larry W. Virden" 27-Feb-1995 ] This is a MIME/WWW browser helper to launch MBONE sessions. Name: ServiceMail Product: toolset Platform: unknown Where: ftp://eitech.com Author: Enterprise Integration Technologies Corporation Contact: servicemail-help@eitech.com Comments: [ Jay C. Weber 13-Oct-1992 ] We (Enterprise Integration Technologies Corporation) have a MIME implementation, which we are distributing freely. Instead of a MIME MUA, it is a toolkit for building services that automatically process MIME messages. It is similar, in spirit, to the few other e-mail-scripting packages except: o it exploits several MIME features o it is intended to run standalone (as opposed to a back-end to a MUA) o it uses TCL (from Berkeley) as its scripting language and support for PEM is in the works. EIT is providing ServiceMail access to the ServiceMail toolkit. If you have the METAMAIL or some other MIME-compliant mail reader, just send the message To: services@eitech.com Subject: archive-request servicemail.tar.Z and read the response(s) using METAMAIL. Save the result in servicemail.tar.Z The package can also be retrieved by anonymous FTP from the site eitech.com. If you have any problems with acquisition, installation, or use, don't hesitate to send mail to "servicemail-help@eitech.com" and ask for help. IF YOU WANT FUTURE UPDATES ON TOOL KIT VERSIONS, BUGS, AND SERVICES, MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE PACT-KIT MAILING LIST. To get on it, send a message to "services@eitech.com" with subject "listserv subscribe pact-kit your-real-name". Name: sun-to-mime Product: conversion tool Platform: OpenWindows Where: ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.perl Where: ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/MIME/sun-to-mime.c Author: Keith Moore Comments: [ Keith Moore 27-Dec-1992 ] A perl script (and conversion to C of same) that converts OpenWindows mail to MIME. Body parts currently supported are: text, gif, Sun rasterfile (converted to image/gif), postscript, and audio. Other types default to application/octet-stream. It's easy to extend the set of types supported and to add conversions, if necessary. The script requires uuencode, uudecode, zcat (aka uncompress), and the "convert" program from ImageMagick. If you don't have ImageMagick you can probably substitute the pbm stuff with little fuss. Name: uu-to-mime Product: conversion tool Platform: perl Where: ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/MIME/uu-to-mime.perl Author: Keith Moore Comments: A perl script that translates an RFC 822 message containing a single uuencoded file to a MIME message containing a base64-encoded file. -------------------------------- 7.3) Mail user agents and transport systems Name: Andrew Product: Multimedia system Platform: Unix Where: Author: Comments: [ Susan Straub 11-Jan-1993 ] Andrew is a very large and ambitious software system developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It is installed at hundreds of sites throughout the world, and includes a multimedia document editor, help system, and various other utilities. In particular, it includes a feature-rich program, "messages", which can read and send mail and news articles in MIME format, including images, audio, richtext, and more. Andrew is available in binary release for several Unix system architectures, and also in source form. Be warned that the source distribution is itself about 50 megabytes, but you really are getting a LOT of stuff. For information on how to obtain a copy of Andrew, send mail to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu. Name: elm Product: MUA Platform: Unix Where: Author: Comments: [ Syd Weinstein 21-Dec-1992 ] Elm support for MIME: 2.3 - uses metamail supplied patch from Nathaniel Borenstein. 2.4: reading: detects MIME headers and calls metamail automatically if the message cannot be displayed on the current screen using the native capabilities of the display (recognizes some char sets as native) sending: detects [include ] markers and makes them MIME attachments. Still very 'crude', but its all we had time for, as to the release deadline of 'Elm' and MIME. 3.x: reading: probably no change from 2.x, but will understand some 'file storage' types and allow for splitting off attachments on their own. sending: will allow defining attachments to be added and auto build the MIME stuff, in addition to the [include ] syntax. release status: 2.3: obsolete 2.4: Current PL is 23. 3.x: not planned until some time in 1994. [ Sven Guckes 18-Apr-1995 ] > 2.4: Current PL is 23. Make that "PL24". > 3.x: not planned until some time in 1994. Make that "1995". Or even "1996". Name: Eudora 1.4.2 Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh MS-Windows Where: ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora/windows/1.4/eudor142.exe Where: ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora/mac/1.4/eudora142.hqx Where: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/ibmpc/windows3/winsock/eudora14.exe Author: Steve Dorner Author: Jeff Beckley (Windows Version) Comments: Eudora 1.4 is a MUA for Macs and PCs that uses POP3 and SMTP and supports MIME. A commercial version is also available: see the next section. Name: HUyMail Product: MTA/MUA Platform: VMS Where: ftp://ftp.technion.ac.il/pub/unsupported/vms/local/local/huymail*.bck Author: Yehavi Bourvine Comments: [ Yehavi Bourvine 22-Jul-1993 ] HUyMailer is a store and forward mailer for VAX/VMS and AXP/VMS systems which supports as transports: DECnet, Multinet/TcpIp, HUJI-NJE and PMDF. The software is available freely for non-commercial use as a C source code. The mailer supports two users' interfaces: VMS/MAIL (to which the connection is done via MAIL11 DECnet connection) or a locally written interface called BMAIL. BMAIL is a menu oriented interface which supports MIME and Hebrew. Name: Iride Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh Where: ftp://gnbts.univ.trieste.it/mime/Iride.sea.hqx Author: GNBTS Comments: [ From the README ] Iride is (or will be -- it's currently in beta test) an implementation of a MIME user agent on the Apple Macintosh computer. It was developed as part of a project of the GNBTS - Gruppo Nazionale Bioingegneria sezione di Trieste, for the integration of multimedia mail with hospital data storing facilities, in particular for the transfer of bioimages. This is a far from a complete MIME implementation, but I think it is quite usable. To use it you need: o Macintosh with MacTCP 1.1 or better installed o 32 bit ColorQuickDraw if you want to use images o audio input device if you want to create audio messages o connection to a SMTP mail relay o connection to a POP3 server MIME types supported: text/plain charset=US-ASCII only text/richtext (no tool for composing richtext yet) audio/basic audio/X-macaudio generated when a NOT sampled audio pasted in image/GIF image/X-macPICT generated when color QuickDraw is missing only multipart/mixed each part is shown in a different window MUST change this multipart/parallel multipart/alternative handled as multipart/mixed MUST change this Name: mercurius Product: MUA Platform: Where: ftp://ftp.lii.unitn.it/pub/mercurius/mercurius.tar.Z Author: Contact: mercurius-bugs@lii.unitn.it Comments: [ "Larry W. Virden" 13-Aug-1994 ] Mercurius facilitates composing and reading multimedia electronic messages compliant with the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). Name: MEUF [Mail Extended Using Faces] Product: MUA Platform: Unix/X Where: ftp://ftp.inria.fr Where: ftp://ftp.enst.fr Contact: Daniel.Glazman@der.edf.fr Author: Daniel Glazman Comments: [ Daniel Glazman 23-Sep-1994 ] Meuf is a student project I developed at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris with the System staff. It has grown A LOT to become a MIME-native MUA running under Xt/Xaw. Earlier non-MIME versions (1.3 and 1.4) are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.inria.fr and ftp.enst.fr. Currently developed version 3.0 will be released as a freely available product as soon as I'll get the authorization. Code has features: Pure MUA features: * Faces (48x48 XBM bitmaps) display using the X-Faces header field and included logos distribution * does not rely on "faces" package * folders (also with Faces display) * waste basket * messages sort by date, subject, length, ... * unlimited aliases * .face, .signature, .prologue, /usr/games/fortune handling * automagically deleted messages * References, Priority, Bcc, Return-Receipt-To handling * "Trusted Users" features * ignored header fields * online help * drag and drop for messages/folders management * interactive Face design * "Properties" windows MIME features: * does not rely on "metamail" package * full MIME composition and restitution for non-textual parts and text/plain * multiparts composition and restitution * basic text/richtext and text/enriched restitution * mailcap mechanism * Sun-Attachments parsing * MIME incorporation * MIME-clipboard (copy/paste of MIME parts between messages) * extraction of forwarded MIME-messages for MIME restitution * User's Guide (PS), Admin. Guide (PS) Successfully compiled and used with: Sun SunOs 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x HP 9000/7xx HP-UX > 9.01 DECstation Ultrix IBM RS6000 AIX > 3.2.4 Convex More information at http://lara0.exp.edf.fr/glazman/meuf.html Availability will be announced in comp.mail.mime newsgroup. Name: MH 6.8 Product: MUA Platform: Unix Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z Where: ftp://louie.udel.edu/portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z Author: Comments: MIME support is available for the MH message handling system; the primary reader and generator is the program mhn(1) although other MH programs are also changed. The current release of MH is 6.8.3. Mhn does not use the mailcap mechanism described in RFC 1343. Instead, it has its own flexible extension mechanism, called a profile. A tutorial for mhn is available: Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex.Z ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.sty.Z ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.ps.Z See the newsgroup comp.mail.mh for further information. Name: MIXMH Product: MUA Platform: Unix with X Where: ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/mail/mixmh/mixmh-0.3.tar.Z Author: Comments: [ Harald Tveit Alvestrand 10-Dec-1992 ] This version is based on XMH version 1.6 from SEI, Carnegie Mellon. It supports sending MIME with extended character sets in the headers (per RFC 1342) and the body (per RFC 1341 text/plain). It has limited support for multipart messages. The source is freely redistributable and modifiable. As you can see from the version number, it is still not considered fully stable. Bugs may be reported to mixmh-bugs@uninett.no Information and discussion will take place on mixmh-info@uninett.no; mail to mixmh-info-request@uninett.no to join. Name: Pegasus mail Product: MUA Platform: MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh Where: ftp://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/* Author: David Harris Comments: [ James Ford 2-Nov-1993 ] Pegasus Mail is an E-Mail package for Novell network v2.15 and higher that supports MHS (natively) and SMTP. The MS-DOS version (v3.01a) is MIME compliant; the MS-Windows version should be by mid-November. I do not know the timetable for the Mac version. You can either get a PC-based SMTP gateway for it (Charon, by Brad Clements) or a (Netware v3.11) NLM-based version (Mercury, by David Harris) from risc.ua.edu. I believe that the SMTP gateway Mercury supports 8-bit MIME encoding. [ Henning Stams 21-Nov-1994 ] MS-DOS-Version currently is 3.22. It's internationalized (German, Czech, Dutch and many more). Windows-Version is currently 1.22; v2.0 soon to come. Also Mime-compliant MERCURY runs on NW 3.11, 3.12, 4.x (Currently Bindery Emul. Mode; soon in NDS-Mode). Current Version: 1.13 Name: Pine Product: MUA Platform: Unix Where: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z Author: Laurence Lundblade, Michael Seibel, Mark Crispin Comments: [ From the release notes 21-Sep-1993 ] Pine(tm) --a Program for Internet News & E-Mail-- is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well. Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs on Unix and MS-DOS. The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals. Feedback from the University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet sites has been encouraging. Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a separate stand-alone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker. [ David L Miller 31-Aug-1994 ] For more information, see http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/ Name: Tkmailto Product: MUA Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/tkmailto-1.0.tar.gz Author: Contact: "Johan Lindbladh" Comments: [ "Larry W. Virden" , 13-Aug-1994 ] Alpha version Tk-based mail composer which supports MIME. Requires Safe-Tcl 1.1. -- 8) Commercial MIME software packages ------------------------------------ Name: Echelon Product: MUA Platform: NEXTSTEP Contact: ak272@freenet.acsu.buffalo.edu Author: Doug Boyce Comments: Echelon is a MUA for NEXTSTEP that can decode, display, and compose both NeXTmail and MIME. Most MIME types are supported. A demo version is available from Where: ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/Echelon_1.12.tar.gz Name: ECSMail Product: MUA/MTA Platform: Unix, NT, OS/2, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Mac System 7 Contact: ECS Sales Phone: +1 403 420 8081 Author: Comments: [ Steve Hole 24-Aug-1993 ] ECSMail is an electronic mail product for building enterprise mail systems. It is designed from start to finish as a system for establishing mail services throughout an organization, with external organizations and the world information system in general. It does this by using a completely standards based architecture. ECSMail is comprised of the following system components: ECSMail MUA Set - a set of Mail User Agents (MUA) ECSMail MTA Set - a set of Message Transport Agents (MTA) ECSMail MS Set - a set of Message Services (MS) All components support both MIME/822 and X.400, and run under Unix, Microsoft NT, OS/2, OpenVMS. Additionally, the MUA Set runs under MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac System 7. Pricing for the ECS products and ISA business information can be obtained by contacting: ECS Sales 835 10040 - 104 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 0Z2 Phone: 403-420-8081 Fax: 403-420-8037 or by sending a request through electronic mail to the address: ECS Sales Name: Eudora 2.0.2 Product: MUA Platform: Macintosh Contact: eudora-sales@qualcomm.com Author: Steve Dorner Author: Jeff Beckley (Windows Version) Comments: Commercial versions of Eudora with more features than the freely available ones. Information about the commercial versions of Eudora can be found at: ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora/windows/Eudor2Info-*.exe ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora/mac/Eudora2Info-*.sea.hqx Name: IBM multimedia mail Product: Platform: OS/2 Contact: Jerry Cuomo Author: IBM Comments: [ Larry Salomon Jr 10-Dec-1992 ] I'm not going to follow this group, but I wanted to state that IBM - at the T.J. Watson Research Center - is developing a multimedia mail application for OS/2 which is based on the Mime spec. They demoed it at Interop. For more information, including (probably) how to become a test site (I haven't confirmed whether they're actually going to do this, but they've done it before), contact the department manager, Jerry Cuomo, at gcuomo@watson.ibm.com. Name: iGate Product: WordPerfect Office gateway Platform: Contact: smart@actrix.gen.nz Author: Smart Systems Comments: [ Quentin Smart 25-Sep-1993 ] iGate provides seamless connectivity to SMTP mail from WordPerfect office. Running as a native gateway under the Office Connection server and incorporting a TCP/IP stack iGate is a complete solution with no extras like MHS or TCP/IP stacks required. Further information from: Smart Systems PO Box 5017 Wellington, New Zealand +64 6 3561484 smart@actrix.gen.nz Name: Mail 3.3 Product: MUA Platform: NEXTSTEP Contact: Lennart Lovstrand Author: NeXT Computer, Inc. Phone: +1 800-TRY-NeXT, +1 415-366-0900 Comments: [ Lennart Lovstrand 28-Feb-1995 ] Mail 3.3 is an easy-to-use multimedia graphical mail user interface that can send and receive messages in both NeXTmail or MIME format. It has support for hierarchical mailboxes, address books, "Lip Service" voice mail and a bunch of other stuff. Mail 3.3 comes as part of the NEXTSTEP 3.3 User System available for NeXT Computers, 486-based PCs, HP, and SPARC based workstations. Name: Mi'Mail Product: MUA Platform: MS Windows 3.x Contact: info@irisoft.be Phone: +32 16 23 23 01 Author: IRISoft Research Comments: [ Jean-Louis Herman 12-Apr-1995 ] Mi'Mail is a electronic mail product with: - Full MIME support (Nested multiparts, Message/Partial,...). - Distributed address books. - Connection with X500 for getting electronic addresses. - Distributed, hierarchical and open folder system (folders contain messages but also any kind of document, any application can get the information stored in the folders). - User friendly interface (drag and drop, context sensitive help, powerful editor). - Uses SMTP and POP3 over TCP or over serial lines with modems. - Automatic solution for managing the compatibility between MIME and non MIME users. - DDE server (with the same interface as cc:mail). - Transparent support of ISO 8859 character sets. - Easy management of the attachments (use of the Windows registration database, drag and drop,..) - Automatic mail checking, sendmail acknowledgment support, Multi-user application. An evaluation version is available at the following site: ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/EUnet/dos Name: Internet Exchange for cc:Mail Product: cc:Mail to SMTP/MIME Internet Mail Gateway Platform: MS-Windows Contact: sales@ima.com Phone: +1 415 871 4045 Author: International Messaging Associates Comments: [ Tim Kehres 08-Dec-1993 ] For cc:Mail users, Internet Exchange is the gateway of choice to provide standardized full multimedia connectivity between cc:Mail users and their Internet partners. Internet Exchange for cc:Mail can be used to interconnect cc:Mail networks with external users on the Internet as well as connecting your own internal network to your cc:Mail community. Internet Exchange for cc:Mail is the first SMTP to cc:Mail gateway that suports the full MIME Internet standard for exchanging rich media multipart messages. This means that your cc:Mail users can now exchange any attachment types with Internet based mail systems. By using the MIME standard, Internet Exchange for cc:Mail users will be assured future compatibility with other MIME compliant mail gateways. To simplify administration and management, the Internet Exchange System Manager runs under Windows 3.1. On screen buttons provide administration access into the gateway operations. Managers can easily view and modify all gateway activity. Message routing is accomplished using any combination of host tables,Domain Name System (DNS) lookup, and default mail host routing. Name: InterOFFICE Product: Multiplatform MTA and gateway for most email systems Platform: UNIX, OS/2, VAX/VMS, Tandem NonStop, NeXTSTEP, HP 3000, AS/400, VM/370, Wang VS Contact: info@bsw.com Phone: +1 617 482 9898 Author: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Comments: [ Larry Campbell 28-Jan-1995 ] InterOFFICE is a portable and modular family of gateway modules (access units, we call 'em) that interconnect a wide variety of email systems, including: ALL-IN-1, cc:Mail, HP Desk, HP OpenMail, IBM OfficeVision/400, IBM OfficeVision/VM (formerly known as PROFS), Microsoft Mail, NeXTMAIL, Novell MHS, QuickMail, Tandem TRANSFER, Wang OFFICE, X.400, and of course, Internet mail. The Internet access unit fully supports MIME, enabling users of proprietary email systems to exchange multipart messages containing text, images, audio, and binary files with Internet users. Name: Ishmail Product: MUA Platform: SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and UnixWare Contact: info@hal.com Phone: +1 800 762 0253 or +1 512 834 9962 Where: ftp://ftp.halsoft.com Pricing: $99 U.S. for single user. Multi-user/site license discounts. Author: HaL Software Systems Comments: [ Frank Bieser 21-Jun-1994 ] Ishmail is a MIME-capable e-mail tool with a Motif graphical user interface. Ishmail includes the following features: - Full support of MIME data types: plain text, rich text, GIF, JPEG, U-LAW audio, MPEG, binary, PostScript, ODA, RFC822 mail message, plus user-defined extensions. - Message attachments supported via: local file, AFS, mail server, regular FTP, anonymous FTP, and TFTP. - Support for composing, viewing, and printing rich text messages. - Easily customized through GUI dialogs for fonts, definition and placement of custom buttons, message list sorting and format, etc. - Variety of user interaction methods, ranging from "drag and drop" and custom buttons to keyboard shortcuts. - Support for use of, modification, and addition of sendmail-style mail aliases. - User defined alert commands and icons, triggered by matching patterns in incoming mail headers. - On-line help cards, including context sensitive help. - Full end-user manual provided in PostScript format. - Complete hypertext version of end-user manual available via World Wide Web at http://www.hal.com/products/sw/ishmail/user-guide.html HaL Software Systems 3006 Longhorn Blvd #A-113 Austin, TX 78758-7631 Name: Mail*Hub Product: Platform: Control Data 4000 Series Mips-based Unix systems Contact: rrr@svl.cdc.com Author: Control Data Systems Comments: [ 23-Dec-1992 ] Mail*Hub includes support for X.400, X.500, SMTP, and creating, viewing, and sending MIME enclosures in mail. In addition, the Fax Gateway portion of Mail*Hub supports sending mail with MIME enclosures to a Fax machine. Graphical MIME components (Postscript, GIF, TIFF,...) are automatically recognized and imaged at the receiving Fax machine. Name: MAIL-IT Product: MUA Platform: MS Windows 3.x Contact: mail-it@unipalm.co.uk Phone: 1-800-368-0312 (+44) 223 250 100 Author: Unipalm Ltd. Comments: [ Maria Porto , 7-Jul-1994 ] MAIL-IT is a Winsock-compatible SMTP/POP mail client with MIME functionality. By implementing Microsoft's Extended MAPI architecture, MAIL-IT allows mail to be sent from directly within MAPI-enabled applications such as Word for Windows, Excel, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and Ami Pro, thus Internet-enabling the user's desktop. MAIL-IT benefits include: - support for MIME - implementation of Microsoft's MAPI architecture - full drag and drop - hierarchical foldering - uses SMTP for sending, and POP2 or POP3 for receiving mail - local address book There is a 30-day demo copy available for anonymous ftp: ftp://pipe.pipex.net/xtech/mail-it/mie202.zip Please contact us for the decrypting password. Name: Mail*Link SMTP for QuickMail, Microsoft Mail for AppleTalk, and PowerShare Product: Macintosh Mail systems to SMTP/MIME gateways Platform: Macintosh Contact: info@starnine.com Phone: 510-649-4949 Author: StarNine Technologies, Inc. Comments: [David Thompson 19-Sept-1994 ] Mail*Link SMTP 3.0 is the industry-standard for connecting Macintosh mail systems to each other, as well as PC, UNIX and host-based mail systems on corporate LANs and the Internet. The Mail*Link family of gateways now provides MIME support for all major Macintosh LAN messaging systems including QuickMail, Microsoft Mail for AppleTalk and PowerShare Collaboration servers. Per-destination processing of messages in version 3.0 allows gateway administrators to configure translation and enclosure handling methods for outgoing messages addressed to a specific SMTP address, domain, or host. The gateway ships with three preprogrammed translation methods for sending messages to users on PCs, UNIX, and MIME-capable systems. Mail*Link SMTP uses the proposed MacMIME standard to allow more flexibility when receiving messages with MIME-encoded Macintosh files. An option to encode an attachment's datafork only with MIME greatly increases compatibility with non-Macintosh MIME systems. Other enclosure handling options include MacBinary-UUENCODE, AppleSingle-UUENCODE, BinHex 4.0, and Datafork-only-UUENCODE, and StuffIt compression. Name: Mail*Link Internet for PowerTalk Product: PowerTalk to SMTP/MIME Internet Mail Gateway Platform: Macintosh System 7.5 Contact: info@starnine.com Phone: 510-649-4949 Author: StarNine Technologies, Inc. Comments: [David Thompson 19-Sept-1994 ] Mail*Link Internet for PowerTalk is a personal gateway that allows System 7.5 users in SMTP/POP3 environments to exchange messages with Internet mail users. Version 1.0 supports System 7.5 and System 7 Pro Macintoshes with MacTCP (included) on a local area network. It uses the standard Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Post Office Protocol (POP3) for sending and reading mail within the LAN. If the LAN is connected to the Internet, PowerTalk users can also exchange messages with external Internet users. Version 1.5, due out in September, 1994 will support SLIP or PPP connections. Incoming Internet messages are placed in the PowerTalk universal mailbox on the desktop. Users can send Internet messages from within their preferred PowerTalk-savvy application such as WordPerfect, ClarisWorks, or the Finder. The gateway supports standard Macintosh file enclosure handling methods including AppleSingle-UUEncode, Datafork only-UUENCODE, MacBinary, and BinHex, as well as MIME. A 60-day trial version of the gateway is available on StarNine's anonymous FTP server (ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/evals/pt-inet) as well as on the CD-ROM version of Apple's System 7.5 product (look in the CD Extras folder). Name: MPOWER Product: Platform: Contact: Author: HP Comments: [ Harald Alvestrand 22-Jan-1993 ] If anyone is interested, the new multimedia product from HP called MPOWER supports MIME format mail. You can drag and drop a picture onto the mail icon, and it will be sent as a MIME message. (Unfortunately, they forgot to quote the delimiter that had a dot in it, and PINE failed to parse that......well, it's a betatest.) Name: NetMail/3000 Product: SMTP/MIME compatible electronic mail system for HP3000s Platform: HP3000 MPE/V, HP3000 MPE/iX Contact: solcentr@netcom.com (Solution Centers International) Telephone: (US) 800 Net-Mail (UK)+44 (0480) 301364 (Other) +1 916 622-0630 Fax: (US) 916 622-0738 (UK) +44 (0480) 493109 (Other) +1 916 622-0738 Author: 3k Associates (support@3k.com) Comments: [ Chris Bartram 3-Jun-1994 ] NetMail/3000 is a full featured electronic mail system for HP3000 computer systems which was designed as an SMTP and MIME compatible network mail system. NetMail/3000 provides a user interface compatible with "dumb" terminals, but also has hooks to identify and utilize features of HP terminals and PC or Mac based HP terminal emulator packages. Users can send messages (8-bit character sets are supported) and attach any number of files (host or pc based) to their messages (PC/Mac based files are automatically retrieved and loaded), and all messages (and attachments) are exported in MIME format, though users can specify that files be encoded via 'uuencode' or 'binhex' if necessary to be readable by non-MIME compatible mail systems). NetMail/3000's user interface is also unique in that Windows-based terminal emulator users can allow NetMail/3000 to automatically extract and pass any message parts (not displayable in the terminal emulator) directly to their PC and have the appropriate application launched to view the file. (NetMail/3000 interrogates the PC on startup to determine the file types "associated" with applications.) NetMail/3000 also includes directory synchronization capability (compatible with Lotus' cc:Mail ADE format), a POP2 server, a quote-of-the-day and daytime server, and will soon be offering a HP3000-based gopher server. NetMail/3000 is priced independent of cpu size/speed/number of users, and includes network capability in the base product. 3k Associates is also an HP Channel Partner. Name: NetMail/3000 HPDesk FSC Gateway Product: SMTP/MIME compatible gateway for HPDesk users Platform: HP3000 MPE/V, HP3000 MPE/iX Contact: solcentr@netcom.com (Solution Centers International) Telephone: (US) 800 Net-Mail (UK)+44 (0480) 301364 (Other) +1 916 622-0630 Fax: (US) 916 622-0738 (UK) +44 (0480) 493109 (Other) +1 916 622-0738 Author: 3k Associates (support@3k.com) Comments: [ Chris Bartram 3-Jun-1994 ] The NetMail/3000 HPDesk FSC Gateway provides a bi-directional gateway between HPDesk mail users and the SMTP/MIME world. Any number of message attachments per message are supported; incoming messages are broken down into files on the HP3000 for HPDesk users and appear as normal message attachments, outgoing attachments are encoded as MIME-compatible message attachments (or optionally just as UUENCODED binary attachments for compatibility with non-MIME compatible mailers). The gateway operates in real-time, is a background process on the HP3000 (which is interrupt driven and uses minimal system resources), and requires no special hardware or additional software. The product is priced independent of platform size or type or number of users. Free 45 day demos are available. Name: PC-MM (PC Mail Manager) Product: MUA Platform: MS-Windows Contact: Lars_Hagberg@li.icl.se Author: ICL Comments: [ Tomas Kullman 30-Sep-1993 ] PC-MM from ICL is a Mail User Agent for Windows 3.1 implemented on Windows Socket API and TCP/IP. PC-MM is currently working on PC-NFS but is designed to be network software independent (i.e. will work on most TCP/IP softwares supporting WinSocket API). PC-MM is a MIME conformant internet mailer supporting SMTP and IMAP2 for sending and receiving. PC-MM requires a UNIX mail server (or similar supporting SMTP and IMAP2). PC-MM V1.0 supports a lot of nice features, such as: - user friendly interface - built-in and user-defined text editor - drag and drop between folders - local and server based folders - integrated address book - message sorting and tagging - "watch dog" for incoming messages PC Mail Manager is announced and volume shipping mid November 1993. For pricing and product packaging information please contact Lars Hagberg at ICL ProSystems AB; E-mail: Lars_Hagberg@li.icl.se or phone: + 46 (0)13 11 70 00. Name: PMDF Product: MTA Platform: VMS Contact: sales@innosoft.com service@innosoft.com Author: Innosoft International Comments: The VMSNET newsgroup 'vmsnet.mail.pmdf' is available for discussion. [ Ned Freed ] Send technical inquiries to service@innosoft.com. Product information, pricing, and literature can be obtained from sales@innosoft.com. The phone number is (909) 624-7907; FAX is (909) 621-5319. Street address is: Innosoft International, Inc. 250 W. First St., Suite 240 Claremont, CA 91711 Name: PP Product: MTA Platform: UNIX Contact: ic-info@isode.com (commercial version) [ "Harald T. Alvestrand" 22-Aug-1994 ] PP is an X.400 and SMTP mailer, and a gateway between these, so you can communicate with "both worlds". The latest and greatest version is the ISODE Consortium release, IC-R1, but this is no longer free. However, it is not expensive, either. The ISODE Consortium offers the source code to all Consortium members, and gives the right to sell products based on the code to commercial members. The PP included in Isode Consortium Release 1 (IC-R1) includes: - Conformance tested X.400/84, running over most stacks you care to name - X.400/88 - X.400 (84 and 88) to SMTP gateways (RFC 1327 compliant) - SMTP, DECNET and UUCP support - P3File (Retix-like) message submission and delivery - Routing using X.500 (experimental) - MIME gatewaying support (MIME-MHS/HARPOON compliant) - SNMP monitoring - X.500 and file based distribution lists - Fax gateway supporting Panasonic, Fujitsu and Class 2 fax modems Name: SMTPLINK 2.1 Product: Platform: Contact: Author: Comments: [ 16-Dec-1992 ] Because this version (2.1) is a 2-3 QTR-93 release you should be talking to your sales rep about the tentative features of this product. They can be reached at 800-448-2500. Name: STI Document Browser Product: MS-Windows 3.1 (shipping), NeXTstep/X11/VMS (in the pipeline) Platform: Contact: info@sti.fi Author: Stream Technologies Inc Comments: [ Ed Anselmo 31-Dec-1992 ] Product name: STI Document Browser Platforms: How and where to get: Stream Technologies Inc. Valkjarventie 2 SF-02130 Espoo FINLAND Tel: +358 0 43577340 Fax: +358 0 43577348 E-Mail: info@sti.fi Name: Super-TCP Product: protocol stack + MUA Platform: MS-Windows Contact: TCP@FrontierTech.COM Author: Frontier Technologies Comments: [ Ray C Langford 28-Apr-1993 ] Frontier Technologies' Super-TCP for MS-Windows includes MIME support in their E-Mail mail system that is a part of the Super-TCP for Windows package. Super-TCP for Windows is a Windows Sockets compliant, 100% DLL implementation that can also operate in a TSR mode. Applications include: Network News Reader, Telnet, FTP Client/Server, NFS Client/Server, SMTP/POP2&3 MIME E-Mail, Telnet Redirector, Interactive Talk, and more. Options are also available for PPP, X.25, and OSI. With the MIME support in E-Mail, any type of binary file may be attached to your message, including Postscript files, spreadsheet files, database files, word processor files, graphic files, audio files, and digital video files. The packages in the Super-TCP product line that include the E-Mail (SMTP/POP2&3) with MIME support are: - Super-TCP for Windows Version 3.0 (Complete TCP/IP package) - Super-TCP/NFS for Windows Version 3.0 (Complete TCP/IP package with NFS client/server) - Super-TCP Applications for Windows Version 3.0 (Windows Sockets applications only) For further information, e-mail TCP@FrontierTech.COM or call +1 414 241-4555. [ "Carl S. Gutekunst" 31-Oct-1994 ] The current release of SuperTCP is 4.00R2. The stack no longer supports a TSR mode. Their MIME MUA is considerably improved in this release. Name: TCP/Connect II version 2.0 Product: MUA, news reader Platform: Macintosh Contact: sales@intercon.com Author: InterCon Systems Corporation Comments: [ Amanda Walker 6-Sep-1994 ] Full support for MIME in email, viewing support for MIME in news. Includes inline composition and display of the following MIME content types: text/plain image/gif video/quicktime text/richtext image/jpeg audio/basic text/enriched image/x-macpict application/applefile application/x-macbinhex40 multipart/mixed character sets: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 Provides drag & drop support for file enclosures, automatic encoding and decoding of AppleSingle/AppleDouble ("MacMIME") body parts, as well as BinHex & uuencode for backward compatibility. Runs native on Power Macintosh computers. For more information please contact: InterCon Systems Corporation 950 Herndon Parkway Herndon, VA 22070 USA +1 703 709 5500 (voice) +1 703 709 5555 (fax) sales@intercon.com (Internet email) [ Dave Saunders 7-Mar-1995 ] To add to the list of contact information: http://www.intercon.com/ ftp://ftp.intercon.com/ Additionally, we have a Windows product which also is MIME aware. It does not have the nifty display features that the Mac product has though... Name: Z-Mail Product: MUA Platform: Unix Contact: info@z-code.com Author: Z-Code Software Corporation Comments: [ Carlyn M. Lowery 29-May-1993 ] Z-Mail, a Unix World Magazine "Product of the Year" winner for 1991, is a complete electronic mail system for workstations. Z-Mail provides Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces, as well as two character modes. The software has been ported to nearly every system that runs Unix, and it works with all standard Unix mail transport agents including sendmail, binmail, smail, MMDF and X.400 gateways. Z-Mail can replace or coexist with standard mail user agents on the system, including BSD Mail, AT&T mailx, Sun Mail Tool, Elm, or Mush. Most anyone can use Z-Mail "off the shelf" and immediately benefit from its simple interface and advanced features. Z-Mail also includes Z-Script, a powerful scripting language that enables users to customize and extend Z-Mail's capabilities. Z-Mail's multi-media capabilities allow easy integration with best-of-class products including spreadsheets, desk-top publishing, graphics, fax, voice, and video. For example, when users receive a spreadsheet file, Z-Mail can be configured to automatically launch the associated application and load the the attachment automatically and transparently to the user. Z-Mail understands MIME-format documents and is also compatible with Sun's multimedia Mailtool. Mac, MS-DOS, and MS-Windows versions, as well as native MIME support, are planned for this summer. For more information on Z-Mail, contact: Z-Code Software Corp. 4340 Redwood Hwy., Suite B-50 San Rafael, CA 94903 tel: (415) 499-8649 fax: (415) 479-0448 e-mail: info@z-code.com Also, you can anonymous-ftp a demo copy of Z-Mail from ftp://ora.com/pub/z-code/zmail/2.1/ (The file you want is named zm.XXX.tar.Z, where XXX is your type of machine.) You'll need to call us after you do so we can send you an activation key. -- 9) MIME and USENET news ----------------------- 9.1) Introduction USENET articles are (by design) very similar to RFC 822 mail messages. It is therefore reasonable to expect MIME software to be adopted for use on USENET. A number of the mail user agents and tools discussed in section 7 also handle USENET news. -------------------------------- 9.2) News readers and transports with MIME support Name: GNUS Product: reader Platform: GNU Emacs Where: Author: Masanobu UMEDA Comments: [ Masanobu UMEDA 07-Aug-1993 ] GNUS is an NNTP-based newsreader for GNU Emacs. GNUS versions 3.14.4 and later directly support reading of articles written in MIME format. It only requires the metamail package. Compositions of articles written in MIME format requires "mime.el" that is a part of MIME tools for GNU Emacs (see section 7.2). Name: gnus-mime.el Product: reaJoe Ilacqua der Platform: GNU Emacs Where: ftp://world.std.com/dist/gnus-mime.el.shar (also in the contrib tree of metamail) Author: Joe Ilacqua Comments: [ Joe Ilacqua 24-Jun-1993 ] "gnus-mime.el" is an ELISP package that adds support for MIME to GNUS. This is the second release: I consider it very beta, and I'm sure there are bugs, but it does work. It provides support both to read and to post USENET articles in MIME format. It's scarcest feature is support for multi-part multi-media ".signatures". I believe that gnus-mime.el is for GNUS prior to version 3.14.4. Name: INN Product: transport Platform: Where: Author: Comments: [ Christopher Davis 03-Jun-1993 ] There is some minimal MIME support in the INN package. Since INN is a transport system, not a newsreader, the support is for transferring MIME messages, not reading them. [ Christophe Wolfhugel 23-Jul-1993 ] INN's MIME support is today divided in two parts: 1) the possibility to have nnrpd add default MIME headers to locally posted articles; 2) transfer-encoding changes on transport with "innxmit", i.e. recode 8bit to quoted-printable. Name: MH Product: reader Platform: Where: See section 7 for MH's FTP sites. Author: Comments: [ John Romine 30-Jul-1993 ] If you compile MH to use NNTP, it can read news with its "bbc" command; MH supports MIME. Name: mhunify (aka stacknews) Product: reader Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhunify.shar.gz Author: Jerry Sweet Comments: [ Jerry Sweet 11-Aug-1994 ] Mhunify is a set of perl scripts and templates that provides shell-level MH functionality with USENET news. Since MH supports MIME, MIME-format news articles just work. I've found that being able to handle news in the same way that I handle e-mail is very useful, although there are some tradeoffs: no kill files, no threads, at least for now. Mhunify also treats MH folders just like news groups. If you subscribe to several mailing lists, and your e-mail is automatically delivered to separate folders, say, via procmail or via MMDF's .maildelivery, the mhunify package lets you progress automatically through your folders just as you would news groups. Requirements: - csh or some shell with shell-level alias or procedure facilities; - perl 4.0 or later; - MH 6.8 or later; - direct file system access to the USENET news spool directory (typically /usr/spool/news - as a local or NFS mounted file system). Some of the goodies: stacknews - read USENET news using shell-level MH. ncomp, nrepl, nforw - compose, reply to, and forward to USENET news groups (these use nwhatnow). nwhatnow - post USENET articles & send e-mail from the same draft. consider - creates a folder, +consider by default, containing specified messages. bburst - bursts digests into a writeable folder, +consider by default. clearf - clears the MH folder stack. mhpped - utility composition template pre-processor. pscan - scan messages from point of previous scan. Plus man pages, templates, example configuration files, other utility programs, and a Makefile to install everything. Name: nn Product: reader Platform: Where: Author: Comments: [ Luc Rooijakkers 26-Jul-1993 ] The current beta release of nn tags newly posted articles as text/plain; charset=xxx with transfer encoding 8bit if the message contains any 8 bit characters. Reading support needs further work. Name: SNews Product: reader Platform: MS-DOS OS/2 Where: ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snews191.zip MS-DOS binaries Where: ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191o.zip OS/2 binaries Where: ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191s.zip Source Author: Comments: [ Daniel Fandrich 27-Aug-1993 ] Revision 1.91 of the SNews newsreader for MS-DOS systems fixes several bugs in version 1.90 (alpha), as well as adding some much-needed features, including built-in support for ISO 8859/1/2/3/4/9 character sets (RFC 1521 and RFC 1522) and a single key interface to the metamail MIME decoder (or other user-specified program). An additional bonus is the availability of an OS/2 version. Name: strn Product: reader Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn/strn/strn092.tar.gz Author: Clifford A Adams Comments: Strn has support for reading and creating MIME articles. Name: trn Product: reader Platform: UNIX Where: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn/trn.tar.gz Author: Wayne Davison Comments: trn 3.0 has support for reading MIME articles with metamail, and creating them with mhn. -- End of Part 2 ************* --