Excerpts from mail: 23-Nov-93 Re: Fed up with NFS-mounted.. peter
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> we tried ams, but the learning curve is very steep. i don't recommend
> it, as mh+pop+mime offers most of the advantages of ams.
> peter
The learning curve for building and installing the AMS delivery system
may be steep, but the AMS user program, "messages", is simple to use and
and exceptionally nice for reading, composing and storing
MIME-compatible multimedia mail messages. The transport mechanism,
which can be AMDS via AFS or sendmail via SMTP, is independent of the
AMS user agents, which are the windows-based "messages" program, and an
ascii terminal-based "vui" program.
Combining kerberized POP with AMS might provide one of the simplest (and
one of the best-featured) AFS-based, MIME-capable mail systems
available. The package wouldnl't be complete, though, without a
straight-forward mechanism to notify users of new mail arrival.
Does anyone use a kerberized POP implementation with AMS that has a
distributed means for notifying users of new mail arrival? (AMS uses
the ATK "console" program to monitor home-area mail delivery -- a
valuable user function that would be lost in a POP implementation of
messages). Somebody mentioned using zephyr datagrams for mail
notification, but the learning curve for installing zephyr on an
enterprise scale is also fairly steep.
Thanks,
-Bob
