Re: A SMTP/POP mailer for DOS

From: Andrew Hodgson (andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:20:07 +0100

In article <199908070110.SAA23844@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>About the only SMTP/POP mail transport agent I ever heard of that runs
>in DOS is UKA_PPP. When I took a look at it, I was appalled to notice it
>fits most definitions of bloatware: ove 1 Meg compressed, with perhaps
>50 different files and scripts uncompressed.

What you have to remember about uka ppp is that it isn't just a smtp sendor for
off-line readers. It is a fully functional internet suite, with this feature in
a bag of lots of other different features. It also acts as a dialer and tcp/ip
stack, as well as having facilities such as ftp etc built-in. It uses conex (I
think) as a dialer, and conex requires more than one file to operate.

So, I would have yet another look at UKA_PPP!

-- 
Sincerely,
Andrew.


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