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- From: paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash)
- Subject: Re: MS Mail: is this an MHS-compatible system?
- Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 09:06:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.090625.16148@frcs.Alt.ZA>
- References: <mhart.727707998@blackjack>
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- mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
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- > I had an SE for an integration firm tell me the other day that
- > MS Mail (v3.0) was an MHS-based mail package.
-
- MS-Mail uses a proprietary encrypted mailbox and dedicated postoffice.
- There _is_ an MHS gateway available, to route mail between MS-Mail
- and MHS. I have no experience of this, but if their SMTP gateway is
- anything to go by, I would avoid it like the plague.
-
- The SMTP gateway is unstable, doesn't comply with the RFCs, is expensive
- and has lots and lots of hidden costs (you need extra software for each
- postoffice that wants to _send_ mail). I assume that the MHS gateway is
- much the same.
-
- If you willingly lock yourself into _any_ closed MS system, you have
- only yourself to blame.
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- Paul Nash paul@frcs.Alt.ZA
- Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa +27-12-5611879
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