Re: Wanted Email application non-network

Bruce Chapman (bchapman@sd88.bc.ca)
Fri, 5 Jul 1996 00:57:21 EDT

On 4 Jul 96 at 22:24, Allen Armstrong wrote:
> wondering what is the best non-network solution windows 3.1 or windows 95
> email application.

Either PC Eudora or Pegasus mail will do an excellent job, I use
both for stand alone serial PPP access, and also use them on a
Netware 3.11 LAN for direct network access. Pegasus is free software
and a bit more powerfull than PC Eudora Lite, but for most users
Eudora will be fine. At home, my personal choice is Pegasus Mail.

> How would I get Eudora to work on a network? Do I have to have
> individual copies of Eudora for each student?

On my Netware 3.11 LAN I have a single Read Only directory with
the basic unconfigured Eudora files (there are very few). Each user
wanting to use Eudora gets a mail subdirectory under their home dir.
(home is mapped as a false root)
eg. I : \bchapman

When you do the Eudora install into Windows (also runs from the
network with the ini's and grp's etc in drive I : ), the command
line will be like:

J:\internet\eudora\eudora.exe I:\bchapman

and the workspace dir would be defined as

I:\bchapman

This puts the users mail and personal configuration into private
workspace, not readable by anyone else. The same procedure works for
multiple users on a single workstation with a single copy of Eudora,
but no security.

> What other network email applications are available for Windows 3.1 or
> Windows 95 network novell network. I do know about Pegasus mail,
> are there any other applications like that?

Netscape 2.x has a built in mailer, as does Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. IExplore comes in three versions, downloadable from
www.microsoft.com

basic browser,
browser with built in tcp/ip
browser with built in tcp/ip and a mailer

I tried the browser, but not the tcp/ip yet. Internet explorer is
reported to be a little more stable than Netscape under Windows 95. I
haven't used it enough to comment on that.

Regards... Bruce <bchapman@sd88.bc.ca>
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