[WinMac] Cross platform mail (was RE:Digest 127)
John.McDonnell@gen.friendsfirst.ie
>Outlook Express would work; I recommend simply setting up a POP server and >SMTP gateway. Then your mac or PC clients can use whatever email they (or >you) want [snip] >DON'T use something like QuickMail LAN or other proprietary SW. [snip] >Or, just add a Unix email server running Pine and have all users telnet in >to the server. I _still_ think Pine is the best email client. I still >think sendmail is the best email server. I'm with Ian all the way on this one. Given a choice, I'd use POP and SMTP on a Linux box via sendmail. This gives users the choice to receive their email whatever way they want. I have one set up (personal project, not work related) that I have read email from the same account using Pine on the server and Netscape on several different servers/clients. IMHO, we have come to rely too much on little gubbins added to mail and when one piece of the puzzle doesn't fit into the "standards", the mail becomes useless. If it can be said in a plain text message, why add pages upon pages of html/headers etc? Just my opinions.
johnmc.
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