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- From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
- Subject: Re: Z-mail: is it any good?
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- Keywords: Z-mail
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <Jan.22.16.45.24.1993.25448@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:55:43 GMT
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- In article <Jan.22.16.45.24.1993.25448@pilot.njin.net> giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe) writes:
- >Is anyone out there using Z-mail in an environment of Suns, Vaxen, and
- >tty terminals?
-
- We have all the above here. The people here that use Z-mail are
- primarily workstation users, both Suns and X terminals. They
- seem to like it a lot, but don't mind too horribly using Elm with
- MIME support or Pine from home. The VMS folks stick to Mail-11,
- mostly because it's so tied into VMS that it's hard to avoid it.
-
- >3) Both UnixWorld and the Sun Observer think Z-mail is the best thing
- >since the Smart Clapper(tm).
-
- Sun Observer thinks 'acc' is a neat idea too, so I'm inclined to
- think less of their opinion. Zmail's a nice package, but it's not
- the be-all/end-all. The Andrew mail system is probably more
- mature, and it's free -- and has a fairly usable text-only interface.
-
- >are my users stuck with VMS mail on the Vax, Quickmail on the Mac,
- >Mailtool and or MM on the Sun, etc ,etc, etc...
-
- The VMS people are pretty much stuck with VMS Mail (or MM if you
- have TGV Multinet). Everybody else seems pretty happy with Elm
- with MIME mods or Pine, or even RiceMAIL on CMS.
-
-
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- dboyes@rice.edu and the Office of Networking and Computing Systems
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