I spoke to this Microsoft guy once who claimed that he had written MS Mail. But he was the type that I don't take seriously [sales and customer relations]
-----Original Message----- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: ? about MS Mail MS Mail was purchased to compete with CC:Mail. I can't confirm the name of the company that was bought to get the core MS Mail product. However, MS did very little development work on the product before releasing it. The original product was DOS based, and worked well for small groups. MS built a GUI client (for Windows 3.1 (shudder) [note to self, I can remember THAT far back???] and developed the infamous MMF file, soon to be revamped into the PST file we see today. The GPO or Group PostOffice that was included with NTAS was a crippled version of MS-Mail in that you couldn't use any external processes against the PO, with the exception of clients. Gateways, Dir-Sync Connectors did not work against the NTAS GPO. John Matteson; Exchange Manager Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards (404) 239 - 2981 Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. --Bruce Lee -----Original Message----- From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:19 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: ? about MS Mail I though MS Mail was purchased from Network Courier in the late 80's, but I was speaking with someone who said that in actual fact it was first developed by Microsoft from scratch for <blech>The Mac</blech> Can anyone confirm this for me? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
