Re: [WinMac] Cross-platform email
Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:20:03 -0700
Ken wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> My problem is this - I can send/receive email from either platform, using
> Claris Emailer on the Mac and Eudora on the PC. However if I receive
> attachments from a PC user on my Mac, the attachments are often
> MIME-encoded, and Claris Emailer won't have a bar of them. If I send a
> file from the Mac to a Windows user, by default Claris Emailer insists on
> BinHexing them, unless I tell it to uuencode or Base64 encode - any of
> these can give problems at the other end.
Well, people sem to frown on it, but Netscape 4.0x's e-mailer is quite
versatile, handles attachments without a hitch on both PC's and
Macs...we're deploying it here in the College (only about 400 users,
though) and so far everyone seems to be having few problems with it.
As for losing resource forks, etc, I recommend getting something like
MacDrive or Here and Now (which I'm using) for your PC; these are
essentially Mac disk drivers for windows, now I don't have to worry
about what format a disk is in, I can just use anything, and both my
home Mac and work PC can read them with no problems...IIRC Here and Now
cost about $70 or $80 US$.
That, and install Stuffit Expander everywhere...the PC version is a very
nice example of a well-ported Mac app.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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