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Re: Pros and Cons of Mail Readers



I'm no expert in this, but I think the limitations to the universality you
want are as much a function of your local mailbox server as your software
reader. For example, at my college they recently changed the mail software
such that I can now access my school mail through my commercial ISP
(Sprynet). What this allows me to do is to set up my mail reader (Outlook
Express) with multiple accounts, one being my normal Sprynet mail account
and the other being my Saint Mary's mail account. When I start up Outlook
from my home machine it checks for mail at BOTH the Sprynet and the Saint
Mary's site and it downloads the mail from both. The way I'm configured,
the downloaded mail will no longer be available from my office site, but I
think there are ways to leave a copy there if I so wished.

I can therefore access ALL of my e-mail (from these two accounts) on any
machine through which I can 'dial-up' a Sprynet connection. If travelling,
all I need to know is the local access number. This seems sufficient to me.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu>


On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Larry Smith wrote:

I think you'll have a happier and more productive life if you:
1) Have your SYSOP install POP and SMTP server software on your VAX, and
2) Run the free Eudora client software (available for both platforms).

Unless there is a _reason_ you read mail directly on the VAX.....

I still use and like PINE primarily because doing so allows me access to
my mail and all my mail files in identical form from any machine in the
world that is connected to the internet and has a telnet client. Using a
pop mail client certainly has a number of important advantages that I'd
like to be able to take advantage of, but it tends to restrict you to a
single machine both because your files are only available on that machine
(unless you "leave mail on the server," keep multiple, unsynchronized
sets of mail files on different machines, or have unraveled the mysteries
of IMAP) and because the program itself is less generally available on
machines you may find elsewhere.

BTW, in Pine Jim's "A0"s show up as the dagger symbol that most fonts
assign to that extended ASCII code.

John