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- From: r1506023@robot.csie.ntu.edu.tw (PureHeart Lee)
- Subject: Re: the mail problem
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:23:17 GMT
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- In article <davecb.725410615@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
- >From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- >Subject: Re: the mail problem
- >Keywords: mail slip uucp
- >Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:56:55 GMT
- >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.
-