Actually, I think there was a version much earlier than the 1992 version that I submitted to one of the VM workshop tapes (1989 or 90? It would have been a year the workshop was held at the University of Kentucky, if you really want to find it). Although you probably wouldn't find it useful because of the lack of support for MIME, numerous bugs, lack of Y2K support, and other relative primitiveness, I have no objection if someone wants to get a copy of that workshop tape and use it. But I (and Rice University) would prefer that you call it MailBook instead of RiceMail. And I would hate to see anyone distributing the code, if only because I know how many things needed fixing. As an historical note, there's a comment in the code that reminds me that I first started working on this program in October 1984, over 20 years ago. You never know just how long a piece of code will stay around. There's probably not too much of that 1984 code left anymore, but I keep that comment in there just to remind me of the history.
Richard A. Schafer MailBook 6632 Fairfield Drive Houston, TX 77023 Phone: 713-921-1433 Fax: 713-921-1363 P.S. And if someone does still want to license the current version of MailBook, feel free to contact me. -----Original Message----- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Newbie on SMTP You may want to hold off sending out copies of Ricemail. Ricemail was never completely free - you always had to get a copy directly from Richard, and the last pre-commercial version (92.1, I think) was the one that Richard permitted you to continue running without updates if you wanted but under the condition that you didn't pass it on to anyone else. I'd check with Richard first before circulating it. -----Original Message----- From: "Fran Hensler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 9/4/06 4:15 PM Subject: Re: Newbie on SMTP Yes, Shimon, RiceMail was free from Rice University. I might be able to dig up a copy from a very old archive tape. But RiceMail was written before there was MIME email. It can't process HTML or attachments. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 43 years [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.724.738.2153 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock" On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:32:08 +0300 Shimon Lebowitz said: >> www.mailbooksoftware.com. Not free, but vastly superior to NOTE >> or SENDFILE. > >Wasn't the predecessor to mailbook (Rice Mail?) >downloadable for free? Is it still around somewhere? > >Shimon
