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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: the mail problem
- Message-ID: <davecb.725410615@yorku.ca>
- Keywords: mail slip uucp
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- Organization: York University
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:56:55 GMT
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- mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes:
- |SLIP system I use assigns me a different IP address each time dial in.
- |This means that I need another solution for mail.
-
- |I have several options to solve the mail problem, none of which I know
- |much about. There's UUCP, POP, an app called MailManager, and I've just
- |read that SLIP commander has a "retrieve mail" function.
-
- I've used MailManager and EasyMail(which use imap, a pop-like
- protocol) from NeXTs with some sucess, and can recommend it.
- It's especially good in that it will happily interwork with other
- pop/imap mail services, and **doesn't trap me** into only being able
- to read my mail from a single machine: the NeXT with my mailbox on it
- (:-()
- Besides, it speaks MIME
-
- --dave (I have a translator from next to mime) c-b
-
-
- --
- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
- 72 Abitibi Ave., |
- Willowdale, Ontario, | York Postmaster and
- CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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