From: MERC::"uunet!DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU!vmsnet-request" 10-MAY-1992 21:52:18.08 To: mccall!vmsnet-newsgate CC: Subj: FAQ - UUCP Mail, News, and Gateway Software for PCs and MACs UUCP Mail, News, and Gateway Software for PCs and MACs James H. Thompson Version: Issue #2 Last Updated: May 8, 1992 Posted to: alt.bbs.waffle, comp.mail.uucp, news.software.readers, vmsnet.uucp This document is a list of UUCP Mail, News and Gateway implementations for the PC and MAC. It does not currently include TCP/IP, POPn, SMTP, IMAP, or NNTP packages unless they also support UUCP. If you have additions or changes please send them to me: +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | James H. Thompson | jimmy_t@verifone.com (Internet) | | VeriFone Inc. | uunet!verifone!jimmy_t (UUCP) | | 100 Kahelu Avenue | 808-623-2911 (Phone) | | Mililani, HI 96789 | 808-625-3201 (FAX) | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Contents: 1. Recommended Reading 2. Commercial UUCP Network connections Anterior Technology DMConnection MSEN Netcom PSI UUNET 3. List of PC Packages DistNet EZ-Mail FREDGATE FSUUCP MUSH PCB/Usenet Gateway PCElm PCNews PMAIL (Pegasus Mail) RAMNET READMAIL SMAIL SNEWS UFGATE UGATE UULINK uuPCB UUPC/extended V-MailServer WAFFLE WafMail WWCP ZMail 3. List of MAC Packages Fernmail Mac/Gnuucp uAccess UUPC - MAC 1. Recommended Reading "The Matrix - Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide" Author: John S. Quarterman Copyright: 1990 Publisher: Digital Press TEL: 800-DIGITAL Modem: 800-234-1998 "The User's Directory of Computer Networks" Author: Tracy L LaQuey Copyright: 1990 Publisher: Digital Press TEL: 800-DIGITAL Modem: 800-234-1998 "!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks" Author: Donnalyn Frey and Rick Adams Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 103 Morris Street, Suite A Sebastopol, CA 95472 Email: nuts@ora.com Phone: 800-338-6887 707-829-0515 FAX: 707-829-0104 "Managing UUCP and the Usenet" Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 103 Morris Street, Suite A Sebastopol, CA 95472 Email: nuts@ora.com Phone: 800-338-6887 707-829-0515 FAX: 707-829-0104 BoardWatch Magazine 5970 South Vivian Street Littleton, CO 80127 Tel: 800-933-6038 303-973-4222 FAX: 303-973-3731 Email: jrickard@boardwatch.com Price: $36/year "How to become a USENET site" Author: Jonathan I. Kamens Latest Version: 22 Mar 92 06:00:52 GMT Where to get: Posted periodically in newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers,news.answers Summary: Periodic posting about the basic steps involved getting connected to USENET. If you are new to USENET the following articles which are posted periodically in the newsgroup: news.answers (unless noted otherwise) may be useful: "What is Usenet?" Original-author: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Last-change: 2 Dec 91 by chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) "A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community Latest Version: 24 Feb 92 06:10:16 GMT Original-author: chuq@apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "USENET Software: History and Sources" Original-author: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "Hints on writing style for Usenet" Original-author: ofut@hubcap.clemson.edu (A. Jeff Offutt VI) Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "Rules for posting to Usenet" Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton) Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions [about USENET]" Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) Last-change: 21 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "List of Active Newsgroups" Last-change: 21 Feb 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "How to Get Information about Networks" Original-author: Randall Atkinson Last-change: 20 Feb 92 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) "FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses" Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,soc.net-people, news.newusers.questions,news.answers Author: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Latest Version: 1 APR 92 06:00:28 GMT "Updated Internet Services List" Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.ads,comp.misc,biz.comp.services Author: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) Date: 7 Apr 92 21:56:27 GMT Summary: A list of services available via the network "UNIX EMail Software - a Survey" Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.misc,news.answers Author: Chris Lewis Update Frequency: every 2 weeks Summary: How to set up Email systems "alt.bbs.internet Frequently asked Questions (with answers)" Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet Last-modified: 15 Mar 92 00:00:01 EST "How to find sources" Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted,news.answers From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Date: 18 Mar 92 06:00:36 GMT Summary: How to find and retrieve source files "List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part I" Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers,news.answers From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Date: 11 Mar 92 06:01:07 GMT "Welcome to news.newusers.questions! (weekly posting)" Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.answers From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Date: 18 Mar 92 06:01:07 GMT 2. Commercial UUCP Network Connections: Anterior Technology P.O. Box 1206 Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206 Tel: 415-328-5615 FAX: 415-322-1753 Email: info@radiomail.net Summary of services: Anterior Technology is a value-added computer communications services provider connected to BARRNet (Bay Area Regional Research Network) and to PSINet (Performance Systems International's network). Anterior is dedicated to full subscriber service and to innovation in communication and information services for the network community. Services: - Internet e-mail exchange via dial-up UUCP or Lotus cc:Mail - USENET news distribution - Help with the initial connection - Off-hours access to Anterior Technology support personnel - Internet FTP archive retrieval server (AutoFTP) - Internet domain registration - UUCP map registration - ClariNet news distribution - uAccess for Macintosh UUCP + Electronic Mail + USENET news - RadioMail one-way and two-way wireless e-mail - AgentSee Headlines Service (AHS) for alphanumeric pagers - SMTP e-mail relay and domain name service for SLIP or PPP sites connecting via BARRNet - NNTP (Network News Transfer) to IP-connected Internet sites x DMConnection 267 Cox St. Hudson, Ma. 01749 TEL: 508-568-1618 FAX: 508-562-1133 email: dmc$info@dmc.com, dmc@dmc.com, info@dmc.com Summary of Services: DMConnection is a low cost alternative for UUCP mail exchange and news feeds. We currently sell UUCP and NEWS feeds to the general public and are currently negotiating a direct Internet connection. We specialize in Macintosh and VAX/VMS support of UUCP and NEWS. We provide several very large mail based file servers archiving most of the major source news groups. Information on the supported file servers can be retrieved by sending mail to fileserv@dmc.com with a body containing the single line: help With the advent of a direct Internet connection, we will also offer a mail based FTP server as well as interactive accounts for FTP, TELNET, and BBS support. MSEN, Inc. 628 Brooks Street Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Phone: +1 313 741-1120 email: info@msen.com Summary of services: MSEN was formed to bring reasonably priced internet connections to the general public. We currently sell dialup IP and UUCP mail/USENET news connections, and will be offering shell login/bbs accounts in 1Q92. We provide services to help people find resources on the Internet, either by connecting to our system and searching our well-indexed archives, or through our consulting services. Owen Medd President, MSEN, Inc. Netcom 4000 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 209 San Jose, CA 95117 Tel: 408-554-UNIX FAX: 408-241-9145 Email: info@netcom.com Summary of services: NETCOM provides a complete comprehensive dialup computer and communication service with over 100 Telebits available for services such as: o Dialup Shell access (telnet/ftp/irc) o News/Mail/domain services (flat fee) o UUCP services (no time charges) o LOW COST SLIP/PPP Internet connections o E-Mail (elm, mail, mush with username@machine formats) o Netnews (2 weeks of news and over 2000 groups) o News readers: rn, trn, nn, zn, tin, vnews, readnews, & more o Shell access (csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, bash) o Compilers (c, gcc, g++, lisp, prolog, clips) o Over 200 custom utilities o Access with a local phone call from many California cities. Performance Systems International Inc. 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, #1100 Reston, VA 22091 Tel: 800-827-7482 703-620-6651 FAX: 703-620-4586 Email: info@psi.com all-info@psi.com (for an automatic reply with a summary of services) Summary of services: Full range of dialup and leased line UUCP and TCP/IP services. UUNET Communications Services 3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570 Falls Church, VA 22042 Tel: 703 876 5050 Fax: 703 876 5059 Email: info@uunet.uu.net Summary of services: Dial-up and leased line UUCP and TCP/IP services, USENET news feeds, and Domain Name registration. See: "How to become a USENET site" for listings of more services. The "Recommended Reading" section has more information about this document. 3. UUCP PC Packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: DistNet Latest Version: 5.61R Last updated: ? Developer/Author: SKAN Communications Inc. P.O. Box 3041, Stn C Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4J3 EMAIL: software@uuisis.isis.org TEL: (613) 729-0274 or (613) 722-4724 News Support: Yes Price: ? Availability: From developer Support: DistNet is fully supported software. Technical Support is available five days a week, 9-5 Eastern Standard Time. Source code available: ? Platforms supported: PC w/DOS 3 or higher, 1MB Disk for software, 512K RAM Protocols supported: UUCP G used for data transfer (uucico), 3-7 windows Notable Features: DistNet Mail & NEWS - UUCP for DOS UUCP - Full support for Telebit Trailblazer (over 1300 cps transfers) - Permits definition of multiple UUCP neighbors for maximum connectivity - easy-to-use editor for writing custom dialing and login scripts Mail - User-friendly mail-user agent - Mail delivery and forwarding agents provide for flexible network topology - RFC 822 message header structure observed for mail - Domain Naming System and UUCP bang-path addressing fully supported - Auto-reply with optional reply-quoting - Aliasing, forward, Reply-To: and signature files supported - fully automated uuencode/uudecode and zoo for binary transfers via mail - Mailing list capability supported News - Capacity to handle 'Usenet' format conference material - News Reader and conference subscription administration utilities - Ability to Post, Reply-by-mail, and read conferences - User-specific newsrc files to track read/unread news - Inbound news searching for strings of interest Administration - multi-user capable - LAN smart (on some LANs) - full featured administrative utilities - compressed mail (zoomail) for use with other DistNet or waffle systems - configurable menu interface permitting flexible security - open design allows a large scope for customization - comprehensive installation and update scripts - extensive documentation Waffle - Compatible with Waffle version 1.64 and below - DistNet can be used as a console interface for Waffle - DistNet supports dialing out, but needs Waffle to answer incoming calls Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: EZ-Mail Latest Version: 2.01 Last updated: 14-APR-1992 Developer/Author: Cinetic Systems 4933 Verreau Montreal, Quebec Canada H1M 2C7 Email: Cinetic@Speedy.CAM.ORG News Support: No Price: Shareware $30 to register Availability: File names: ezml201f.zip (Windows 3.0) ezml201s.zip (Windows 3.1) FTP: ftp.cica.indiana.edu garbo.uwasa.edu wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Compuserve: WINADV and/or IBMCOMM Forums Support: Email: Cinetic@Speedy.CAM.ORG and 71640,666 on Compuserve. Source code available: No Platforms supported: PC running Windows 3.x 80286 or better (80386 with 2Megs for Enhanced mode), Windows 3.x, a VGA or EGA adapter. Protocols supported: Ready to run with: - FSUUCP by FUBAR Systems. - PC-NFS by Sun Microsystems Inc. - PC/TCP by FTP Software Inc. - Pathway by the Wollongong Group. - UUPC/extended by Drew Derbyshire Notable Features: EZ-Mail 2.0. This is a full featured mail reader/composer that let you manage Internet mail under Windows. Works with popular UUCP packages for DOS and with PC-NFS (or equivalent) network software. It is fully configurable and support multi-user setups. Nice 3D-look easy-to-use user interface. It has a colorful toolbar and an informative status bar. Ready to work with UUPC/Extended, FSUUCP, PC-NFS (Sun MIcrosystems), PC/TCP (FTP Softwares) and Pathway (The Wollongong Group). You can also configure it to work with others. EZ-Mail's ancestor is WinMail. WinMail is no longer supported and all users of WinMail 1.0 to 1.1a should now use EZ-Mail. Reviews: -- Supplied by vendor: "EZ-Mail is a classy product, I now live by it. It is fast, easy, efficient, reliable, and as far as I am concerned, much better than commercially available products. In short, EZ-Mail is excellent and is the most profound Windows application to hit my desktop." -David J. Kovanen - Technical Editor, Procomm Magazine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: FREDGATE Latest Version: 1.8K Last updated: Developer/Author: J. W. Hance CIS: 72617,2205 Fido 1:231/270.0 News Support: Price: Shareware - no fee for non-commercial use Availability: Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: Fido BBS on PC Protocols supported: UUCP (Uses the UUCICO program from Waffle) Notable Features: Mail & news/echos between FidoNet and UUCP Puts messages into .PKT files. Reviews: Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46 (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222) -- Erik.Jacobson@p4.f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Erik Jacobson) writes: | The newest version of FredGate now is 19H. | | This is a version by the new author. The old author lost interest/didn't have | time to program FredGate so he let someone else take over. | | 19H is based on an older version of FredGate (Older than the newest one by Jo | Hance). At any rate, it seems to be much more stable. It actually puts the | correct "e-mailable" (is that a word?) address in gated EchoMail (Fido --> | UseNet). This is something no other version of FredGate did, and they all sho | have. | | Its got some better security options too. | | If you need help, I may be able to answer some questions about it. (I think | should be moved to alt.bbs only right? This isn't WAFFLE... ) | | I might as well note one thing that isn't in the docs (mainly because I don't | believe the docs exist... just a small informational text file). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: FSUUCP Latest Version: 1.3 Release 1 Last updated: March 1992 Developer/Author: Christopher J. Ambler Fubar Systems 1742 Lima Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-6817 Tel: 805-542-0336 BBS: 805-54-FUBAR (FSBBS 2.0 beta prototype system) News Support: Batched, compressed (12-16 bit) B and C news Price: Shareware - $35 Availability: Anonymous FTP from: polyslo.calpoly.edu /pub simtel20.army.mil PD1:FSUU12R4.ZIP or from Boardwatch BBS: 303-973-4222 or floppy via mail from developer ($35) Support: Mailing list - send request to: fsuucp-request@zeus.calpoly.edu Source code available: no Platforms supported: PC (2.0Mb disk space for programs) Protocols supported: 1-7 window g Notable Features: FSUUCP implements a UUCP/Usenet transfer protocol for MSDOS based machines. It comes complete with a uucico, uuxqt, rnews and rmail, mail, readnews, postnews, uuq, uusnap, and news utilities like batcher and expire, as well as other helpful utilities to maintain active files, news and mail rc files, and user mailboxes. Unlike other packages, FSUUCP implements these programmes as DOS commands directly. By putting the executables on your PATH, and setting an environment variable pointing to your configuration file, you can have UNIX mail and news on your MSDOS machine from the prompt, just like UNIX. Reviews: Boardwatch Magazine, November 1991, pg 21,22,23 (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222) -- wolfgang@netcom.COM (Wolfgang Henke) Date: 14 Feb 92 23:50:19 GMT UUCP? I recommend FSUUCP from Chris Fubar. Its a complete package for dial-up UUCP from a DOS machine. More advanced versions are also available, but are not shareware. It took me about an hour to get UUCP up and running from my DOS mail machine. I met Chris at Uniforum. As I said, I recommend the product. It uses the UUCP -g protocol over most modems. 2400 bps is just fine, if you dont have long distance calls or large amounts of files, news and mail to transfer. ... In a sense, one could say this is a QWK door-reader package, which are so popular on DOS/PCBOARD BBSes, but based on UUCP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: MUSH Latest Version: 7.1.0 UNIX: 7.2.4 DOS: 7.1.0 Last updated: Apr 25, 1990 Last updated: Feb 20, 1992 Developer/Author: Dan Heller Bart Schaefer , News Support: no Price: Free Availability: Anonymous FTP from: simtel20.army.mil PD1:MUSH71.ZIP PD1:MUSH7DOC.ZIP Support: Newsgroup comp.mail.mush Source code available: Yes Platforms supported: UNIX, PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: MUSH = Mail User's Shell This packages appears on a number of PC BBS systems. The documentation states that it has no PC support, however the author assures me that it does work on PCs. Reviews: -- From: "UNIX EMail Software - a Survey" Posted in the comp.mail.misc newsgroup February 17, 1992 mush: author Dan Heller* The "Mail User's Shell" is a "shell" for mail users. That is, it has its own environment where you can configure not only the user interface, but the actual internal mechanisms. Internally, mush has a csh-like scripting language, altho it's not as powerful as csh. It has command-line aliases, file completion, if-else state- ments, command piping, and so on. Because you can build your own commands, you can virtually build your own library of email features. Mush has two tty-based interfaces: the standard tty-mode (ala BSD Mail or sys-v mailx) and the fullscreen/curses mode (ala vi, emacs or even Elm). You can set up key bindings that execute one or more mush commands, personalized commands or even UNIX commands. You can even emulate keyboard input with keyboard macros and mappings. Mush also has a SunView interface that is more powerful than Sun's Mailtool, yet backwards compatible with most versions. Most sunview users (if there are any left these days) prefer MushView over Mailtool. The current version of Mush is 7.2.3, last posted in comp.sources.misc volume 18 (with subsequent patches). All three interfaces are available in one runtime binary. Except for the MushView interface (which is only available on for suns), Mush is portable to everything that runs UNIX. There is also a DOS port available for PCs and can run on most 286 machines. An older version of Mush (6.5) can run on as little as 640 of RAM. (Mush-PC is typically used with UUPC.) The "next generation" of Mush is a commercial product called Z-Mail from Z-Code Software (mail argv@z-code.com for details). All aspects of Mush are retained, yet it has grown to be far more powerful. It runs under X windows with either a Motif or Open Look interface and also supports multi-media, user "functions" and a suite of new features. Third party documentation is available from O'Reilly in the book entitled "The Z-Mail Handbook" (by Hanna Nelson). This book not only covers Z-Mail, but Mush as well. Mush stores its messages in "mbox" format, or MMDF format if you're using MMDF as your MTA. The newsgroup comp.mail.mush is dedicated to it. [Note: Z-Mail is not related at all to Zmailer. Zmailer is a MTA] -- appel@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel) Subject:Question on DOS-MUSH Date: 4 Mar 92 03:34:14 GMT I've been trying to get the DOS-MUSH off of SIMTEL to work. It's a port of 7.1 for the IBM. Most of the stuff works fine, but some commands like ls and using mush to send mail result in Access Denied results, which is quite strange since my IBM has no concept of permissions. The access denied results are always for directories...I don't know if that means anything or not. Any ideas? I tried running it without the things that I assumed could be causing problems (namely DesqView and 4dos), but the results still came out exactly the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: PCB/Usenet Gateway Latest Version: Last updated: Developer/Author: Mark "Sparky" Herring (Author of QMail Deluxe) News Support: Yes Price: $3000 Availability: Michael MacDonald Canada Remote Systems 1331 Crestline Drive, Unit D Mississauga, Ontario Canada L4W-2P9 TEL: 800-415-7562 Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: PC Board BBS on PC Protocols supported: UUCP (Uses the UUCICO program from Waffle) Notable Features: Mail & news/echos between PCBoard and UUCP Allow PCBOARD users to use QMAIL Deluxe to read and answer Internet mail news offline. QMAIL Deluxe is available from the QMAIL support BBS: 901-382-5583 Reviews: Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46 (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: PCElm Latest Version: 3.01 Last updated: January 1, 1992 Developer/Author: Wolfgang Siebeck P.O.Box 15 26 D-W-5100 Aachen FAX: +49+241+47997-77 News Support: No Price: Availability: Anonymous FTP from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, directory pd1: file name: PCELM301.ZIP Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: Mail user agent. Works with: KA9Q NOS, UUPC or Waffle Quoting from the documentation: PCElm is a mail user agent (UA) with a user interface closely modeled after the USENET ELM. To avoid confusion, we would like to mention that PCElm and USENET ELM are *not* related. PCElm is intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for BM when using the KA9Q NOS package or as a replacement for mail.exe when using UUPC. It can also be used for other mail systems, as all relevant things for compatibility with MTA's (Message Transfer Agents) are configurable. Highlights: PCElm has a nice user interface, with easy to learn and easy to use commands. UN*X users will already be familiar with the more important commands. It can be made to work with just about every mail system there is for PC's, as PCElm makes no assumptions at all about the underlying network software. Finally, PCElm is multilingual; you can make all messages appear in your favorite language. Message files for English and German currently exist. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: PCNews Latest Version: 123beta Last updated: February 19, 1992 Developer/Author: Andrew Lindh News Support: Yes Price: Availability: PCNews is on ftp.hartford.edu (/pub/pcnews/pcn120.zip) Support: USENET News group: alt.pcnews Source code available: Platforms supported: PCs running UUCP/Extended Protocols supported: see UUCP/Extended Notable Features: PCNews is a full USENET News package. Quoting from the documentation: 1. INTRODUCTION This guide covers the system operations except the user interface. It will give you a basic idea on how to setup and manage a USENet News (or NetNews) connection. It does not cover UUCP (from the UUPC program), what news is, or how to obtain a news connection. It also does not cover rules or ethics of NetNews. PCNews is a full news system. It contains a full user interface for reading and posting news. It also contains full programs for deleting news by date or usage. The PCNews package is also a full news server to send news feeds to other systems. PCNews has also successfully been used in multi-user and multi- workstation (Networked) environments. The whole PCNews package is similar to the B-News found on UNIX systems. PCNews is only for the DOS environment, if you wish to use a NetNews package under UNIX, this is not it. You would be better off with B-News 2.11 or C-News. Reviews: --John Covici in News posting of 4-FEB-1992: "This is a very nice news package for MS-DOS. It includes full control message processing (the only one I know of on DOS) and other nice features. You need uupc-extended 1.11r to use this. This package is still in beta, but it seems pretty solid." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: PMAIL/Pegasus Mail Latest Version: v2.3 (R1) Last updated: Developer/Author: David Harris Consultant Computing Services Centre University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand TEL: (+64) 3-4798598 FAX: (+64) 3-4798577 Email: david@otago.ac.nz News Support: No Price: $0 Availability: Anonymous FTP from: risc.ua.edu /pub/network/pegasus/pmail231.exe omnigate.clarkson.edu /pub/pmail/pmail231.exe splicer.cba.hawaii.edu /files/pegasus Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: PC Protocols supported: Novell or UUCP via Waffle or user defined gateway Notable Features: Pmail 2.3 is the legendary "standalone" Pmail: it can run without NetWare, and has limited support for non-NetWare LANs. A sample user-defined gateway which interfaces Pmail to Waffle 1.6x for uucp mail is included in the distribution archive, as is comprehensive documentation on user-defined gateways. An Asynch mail gateway will be released for 2.3 in the next few weeks. Changes from previous versions: * User-defined gateway support has been heavily improved, and a quite comprehensive guide is included, along with a sample gateway, both source and executable to interface to Waffle. Reviews: -- John Ho hho@ALUDRA.USC.EDU in comp.bbs.waffle 29-apr-1992 New version of Pegasus mail has just been release, and I have tested with Novell 386 v3.11 and Waffle 1.64.. Neat.. It runs perfect.. Pmail can call uucico directly or read directly from the user directory.. You have a choice of either login waffle and read mail or using Pmail which has a great user interface (color, fullscreen) etc, like NOvell.. Until Chrome come out, I'll have to settle with Pmail.. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: RAMNET Latest Version: Last updated: Developer/Author: Ross Greenberg Software Concepts Design 594 Third Ave. New York, NY 10016 TEL: 212-889-6431 FAX: 212-889-9730 News Support: Price: Commercial - < $200 Availability: Developer Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: Runs as a TSR. Sends and receives email using UUCP. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: READMAIL Latest Version: 4.01 Last updated: July 4, 1991 Developer/Author: Jeroen Schipper Grunoplantsoen 17 3981 GS Bunnik The Netherlands Tel. +(31)3405-61733 Internet: jschippe@cs.ruu.nl BBS: Dutch BBS 'Julliet' Fido net/node 2:286/315 (username Jeroen Schipper) News Support: Price: Free Availability: Anonymous FTP from: simtel20.army.mil PD1:RMAIL401.ZIP Source code available: Unknown - Written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 Platforms supported: PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: A mail reader -- Cannot be used to send mail! Handles a max of 500 messages at a time if there is enough memory. Can read messages in the following formats: UNIX, EchoMail, Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQ lists, MBBS, MMDF mail, and UseNet messages Allow the user to add the ability to read new mail formats via a simple parameter file. Tracks message status (read, selected, deleted). Context sensitive help. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: SMAIL Latest Version: smail 2.5, PC Release 1.0 beta Last updated: April 2, 1990 Developer/Author: Stephen C. Trier News Support: No Price: Free? Availability: Anonymous FTP from: simtel20.army.mil PD1:SMAILBIN.ZIP PD1:SMAILSRC.ZIP Support: Source code available: Yes - Turbo C 2.0 Platforms supported: PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: A port of the UNIX smail program to the PC - works with MUSH. Appears that no updates have been made since 1990. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: SNEWS Latest Version: 1.12 (but see notes below for new version in alpha) Last updated: 10-Nov-1991 Developer/Author: John McCombs Michael Studte News Support: Yes Price: Free - distributed under GNU Public License Availability: Posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc in 4 parts Date: 19 Mar 92 20:21:37 GMT Posting-number: Volume 17, Issue 102 Archive-names: snews112/part01 .. snews112/part04 Support: "Yes, but only after you've tried hard yourself" Source code available: Yes - C source included in distribution Platforms supported: PCs running UUPC Protocols supported: Notable Features: 'Simple NEWS' is an news add-on for UUPC. It is intended for use as a leaf node and offers: - Threaded news reading. This allows you to be much more selective about what you read, enabling you to cover many more newsgroups. - The when a cross-posted article is read the news-reader marks all the other instances of the article as read too. - Separate rc files are kept for each user, which record the individual articles that you have seen. This is in contrast to some readers which simply record the highest article number read. The user is defined, as for mail users, in the file pointed to by the UUPCUSRRC environment variable. - Usual range of response facilities: follow-up news, reply by mail, forward by mail, save article/thread to disk. - Articles are now stored in one file per newsgroup, rather than one file per article. This results in an enormous saving (up to 3:1) in disk space on disks with with a default cluster size of 4kb per cluster. - Processing of batched/compressed news. Unbatched and uncompressed are not processed. Control messages are not processed. - Posting - Posts are unbatched and uncompressed. You can only post to your 'mailserv'. You cannot feed another site. Posting can only be done from within the news reader SNEWS. If you are looking for something to feed other sites why not try Waffle? - 'Received date' oriented expire to maintain the news database. Msg from Author - 4-May-1992 Firstly there is a new release which fixes many of the deficiencies in version 1.12, and cleans up/replaces much crufty code. This release has been prepared by a group of Australians, coordinated by Michael Studte . Reviews: -- Steve Kohlenberger review with posting SNEWS is a simple news program to be compatible with the UUCP package called UUPC. I have been happily using it for a few months now and watched it improve. It handles all my basic needs and I am comfortable with it. It also saves a lot of disk space because all the messages for one message group are saved in one file and a corresponding index file. That literally cut my disk space usage down to less than half of what it was. Its relatively fast and quite easy to install and use. I can recommend it for anyone with a recent copy of UUPC, some version of DOS, and a news feed. -- Russ Nelson on uupc-info list 9-APR-1992 Subj: Simple News works great. I'm using Simple News to read news now. Works great, although the code is a bit crufty in spots. However, it works quite nicely, and was very easy to install. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: UFGATE Latest Version: 1.03 Last updated: Developer/Author: Tim Pozar Late Night Software 671 28th Street San Francisco, CA 94131 TEL: 415-695-7727 FAX: 415-695-0759 News Support: Some Price: Shareware - $35 non-commercial $195 commercial/corporate/govt. Availability: Late Night Software Anonymous FTP from: simtel20.army.mil PD1:UFG_103.ZIP Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: Fido BBS on PC Protocols supported: UUCP Notable Features: Mail & news/echos between FidoNet and UUCP Puts messages into .MSG files. Reviews: Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46 (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: UGATE Latest Version: Last updated: 13 January 1992 Developer/Author: John Coonrod The Hunger Project One Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA MCI: JCoonrod MHS: jc@thp hvia NHUB or CSERVE (Compuserve) UUCP/Internet: cdp.igc.org!thp!jc Compuserve: 76660,16 Dialcom: 31060:MCI209 Fax: 212-532-9785 News Support: No Price: Shareware - $200 to Hunger Project Availability: Author Support: email Source code available: No Platforms supported: Novell LAN's running MHS software Protocols supported: UUCP "g" Notable Features: Links a PC MHS based email packages to UUCP email networks. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: UULINK Latest Version: Last updated: Developer/Author: Lauren Weinstein Vortex Technology P.O. Box 1323 Topanga, CA 90290-1323 310-455-9300 FAX: 310-455-2364 News Support: Limited Price: Commercial - $335 Availability: Floppies from Vortex Technology Support: Phone Source code available: No Platforms supported: PC 256K Memory, Hard disk recommended but not required, MS-DOS 2.0 and later Protocols supported: UUCP "g" Notable Features: Multiple mail users on same PC (not simultaneously) Max of approximately 320 (next version to support 9999) messages per each processed mail folder. No limit to the number of messages which may be received in a user mailbox. Automatic scheduling, RFC-822 headers, mail route through to other sites, thousands of copies sold. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: uuPCB Latest Version: in Beta Test as of 1/1/92 Last updated: Developer/Author: Ed Hopper 3403 Jacquelyn Pearland, TX 77581 TEL: 713-997-9834 BBS: 713-997-7575 News Support: Yes Price: $49 to $199 depending on number of lines supported on PC Board system Availability: Author's BBS - see above Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: PC Board BBS on PC Protocols supported: UUCP Notable Features: Mail & news/echos between PCBoard and UUCP Reviews: Boardwatch Magazine, January/February 1992, pg 46-47 (For copies of the review:: 1-800-933-6038 or 303-973-4222) -- tim.meade@conex.uucp (Tim Meade) Subject:PCBOARD AND USENET Date: 22 Feb 92 17:36:00 GMT -> There's a new program called uuPCB which allows a usenet-pcboard link -> without having to go through any other programs. -> And it works great! We are using it here and have full USENET access directly into the PCB conference base. Offline Mail doors and readers work fine with USENET. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: UUPC/Extended Latest Version: 1.11q Last updated: December 8, 1991 Developer/Author: Drew Derbyshire Email: help@kew.com Kendra Electronic Wonderworks Post Office Box 132 Arlington, MA 02174-0002 News Support: Not included (in development) but see SNEWS and PCNews Price: Shareware - $20 to $50 Availability: Anonymous FTP from: sun.soe.clarkson.edu pub/uupc wsmr-simtel20.army.mil PD1:UUPC*.* Automated mail server running on Clarkson University's sun.soe.clarkson.edu Clarkson University BBS The Kermit server running on kewgate, Kendra Electronic Wonderworks's file server Anonymous UUCP from kewgate BIX CompuServe Ordering floppies by mail from Crynwr Software Support: Listserv Mailing list: email to: "listserv@sun.soe.clarkson.edu" body: "add your_email_address uupc-info" and Email to help@kew.com Source code available: Yes - Included in distribution (Mostly C) Platforms supported: MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Desqview, OS/2 Protocols supported: UUCP "g" Notable Features: Supports UUPOLL, UUSTAT, aliases, multiple hosts, RFC-822 headers, signature blocks, modem configuration files, Kanji character set, etc. Can handle news with add on software (SNEWS and PCNews). May support Internet MIME MultiMedia Mail soon. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: V-MailServer Latest Version: 1.20 Last updated: Feb 29, 1992 Developer/Author: Rick Vandenberg Vandenberg Systems Research # 103 - 1016 West 12th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6H 1L3 For info on V-MailServer send a blank message to vmail-info-request@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca News Support: Price: $39 (Canadian) Availability: March, 1992 Support: Mailing list - send a message to: mail-server@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca Include the following command in the body of the message: subscribe vmail-l or email to rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca Source code available: No Platforms supported: Protocols supported: Notable Features: V-MailServer is a MSDOS-based mail server. It is designed to work with any MS-DOS based RFC822-compliant mail system. Features: Fully configurable List Server commands (supports public and private lists) Full logging Definable daily and per message limits Password capability Automatic file server features For info on V-MailServer send a blank message to vmail-info-request@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: WAFFLE Latest Version: v1.64 Last updated: 15 Jan 1991 Developer/Author: Thomas E Dell Darkside International Post Office Box 4436 Mountain View CA 94040-0436 News Support: Yes - BBS style Price: Shareware MSDOS: $30 for executable, $120 for source code UNIX: $120 source only no binaries available Availability: o By X,Y,ZMODEM download +1 408 245 SPAM (2400 baud), in /files/waffle/wafxxx.zip o By Anonymous FTP simtel20.army.mil PD1:WAFxxx.ZIP wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/msdos/waffle/wafxxx.zip.1 o By postal mail Support: Email: root@vox.darkside.com Usenet Newsgroup: alt.bbs.waffle Source code available: Yes Platforms supported: MS-DOS, UNIX A/UX, BSD 4.3, ESIX, HP/UX, SGI Unix, SunOS, Ultrix, SCO Unix, Xenix or 386/ix. Protocols supported: UUCP "g", batched and compressed news feeds Notable Features: Support mail and news. Includes DOS equivalents of: UUX, UUQ, UUCP, RMAIL, RNEWS and a news and mail reader. Can be used as a single-user UUCP node or a BBS with email, editor, transfer section, security, doors, cookies, etc. A scheduler can execute DOS commands as well as invoke UUCP tasks. Supports FOSSIL comm drivers in addition to its own interrupt package. Reviews: -- Vince Skahan in comp.mail.uucp 18-MAR-1992 >Would someone please send me info on the versions of uucp which are >available for MS-DOS machines, including info on how to acquire copies of >them. Thanks. There are 3 good ones currently. Waffle has full USENET news/mail/uucp in addition to being an actual dial-in/dial-out BBS. Available on SIMTEL20 in pd1: Shareware $30.00 UUPC/Extended has uucp/mail (no USENET unless you use one of the add-in packages like 'snews'). Available in pd1: Totally free. FSUUCP has news/mail but I'm not sure if it has uucp or not. Available in pd1:, shareware $35.00 or so. I've run them all and would recommend Waffle over the others by a wide margin, especially if you want to have your system up all the time 'answering the phone'. It also has a wonderful cron facility so you can automate your system dialing out, etc. to save phone $$$ by calling at night. There's really nothing that it can't do very reliably and simply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: WafMail Latest Version: 1.0 Last updated: Developer/Author: News Support: Yes Price: Availability: WLM v1.0 for Waffle 1.64 on COW Pastures BBS 404-421-0764 Directory: WAFFLE Filename: WAFM10.ZIP Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: Protocols supported: Notable Features: Offline QWK mail and news reader for Waffle. Handles both QWK and RNEWS packets. Reviews: --John K. in alt.bbs.waffle 25-MAR-1992 Subject:Re: QWK mail for DOS Waffle Get WafMail, the Waffle Offline Mail system. It will not only provide you and your users with QWK, but with straight text and Rnews packets as well. My users LOVE it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: WWCP Latest Version: 1.20 Last updated: 5/1/92 Developer/Author: Anthony W. Hursh email: tsawh@acad1.alaska.edu WWIVnet: 1@500 News Support: Yes Price: Shareware - Registration $25 Availability: The latest version of WWCP will always be available on The Fredbox (907) 344-8437 (@502 WWIVnet), Someplace Else BBS (907) 338-1612 (@9702 WWIVnet), Virtual Reality (907) 345-7728 (@9704 WWIVnet). WWCP is also available by email. The most recent version can be retrieved by sending mail to file-request%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu, with the message /GET wwcp/wwcp120.arj Do not include a signature, unless you really want to see the help file. The /GET *is* case-sensitive, unfortunately. WWCP should be uploaded to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil very soon, for those who would rather retrieve the package by FTP. Support: Author available through email, also a WWIV netsub (similar to a newsgroup). Source code available: No Platforms supported: PC running Waffle Protocols supported: XYZmodem and HS/Link for the WWIVnet connect Notable Features: The WWCP package allows you to exchange email between the WWIVnet and the Waffle BBS (and thus, Usenet/Internet if the Waffle system is connected). WWIV netsubs can be carrried as newsgroups on the Waffle system and vice-versa. The interface is totally invisible to the user. No kludges (such as manually adding special address lines to email or posts) are necessary. All routing is fully automatic. WWCP runs on the Waffle system. No special setup is necessary for the WWIVnet connect. As far as WWIVnet can tell, the Waffle system looks like a normal WWIVnet node. WWCP is shareware with a $25 registration fee. Reviews: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: ZMAIL Latest Version: UNIX shipping, MS-DOS version in development Last updated: Developer/Author: Dan Heller News Support: Price: Availability: contact developer Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: UNIX, PC Protocols supported: Notable Features: ZMAIL's ancestor is MUSH. They share the same author. The MS-DOS version of Z-Mail can run in 16 bit real mode with a tty or full-screen (curses) interface. A GUI interface will also be available when DESQView/X is appears. It will interface to SMTP or UUCP MS-DOS transports. "The Z-Mail Handbook" (by Hanna Nelson) is available from O'Reilly. It covers Z-Mail and Mush. Reviews: "Email for Power Users", David Fieldler, BYTE December 1991 pg 295-298 4. UUCP MAC Packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: Fernmail Latest Version: 1.1 Last updated: 2/11/92 Developer/Author: Dave Platt Snulbug Software News Support: limited - can post (define headers and execute rnews command) but not read. Price: Shareware - $20 Availability: contact author for latest version sumex-aim.stanford.edu Support: email to author Source code available: no Platforms supported: MAC Protocols supported: Notable Features: A Mac-based mail reader/poster. Supports multiple users, not simultaneously. Can read mail transported by UUPC, Mac/Gnuucp, and UUMac. Reviews: -- David "It's a real snazzy tool, allowing multiple mailboxes open concurrently, encoding & decoding on the fly, and multiple windows." --Paul Robichaux email of: January 22, 1992 "I use it and love it. Best non-commercial Mac RFC822 reader I've seen." -- .Boyd Ostroff from email of: January 22, 1992 "Excellent all around. Very easy to use. MultiFinder compatible. My 9 year old daughter uses it! Has built-in support for BinHexing/de-BinHexing binary files automatically." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: Mac/Gnuucp Latest Version: Last updated: Developer/Author: News Support: Price: Availability: sumex-aim.stanford.edu rascal.ics.utexas.edu Support: Source code available: Platforms supported: MAC Protocols supported: Notable Features: Has a HyperCard-based user interface. Reviews: -- .Boyd Ostroff from email of: January 22, 1992 "A nice try but the throughput is extremely poor. In testing it I could not get much better than 100 cps even with a 9600 baud direct connection. UUPC is much better (until a rewrite of gnuucp comes along)." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: uAccess Latest Version: 1.5 Last updated: Developer/Author: ICE Engineering 8840 Main Street Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 Tel: 313-449-8288 News Support: Yes Price: Availability: US Customers: Griffin Software (213) 541-6414 Anterior Technologies (415) 328-5615 United Kingdom Customers: Network Analysis Ltd (+44) 203 419996 Call ICE for the latest list of distributors and dealers. Support: from ICE Source code available: Platforms supported: MAC System Requirements: o Minimum: Macintosh Plus 1MB RAM, Hard Disk, Modem o Ideal: Macintosh IIcx 4MB RAM, 80MB Hard Disk, Telebit modem Protocols supported: G with 7 frame windows, call in and out Notable Features: uAccess provides a complete environment for reading electronic mail and Usenet news transported via the UUCP protocol. uAccess implements the UUCP communications protocol using Apple's new Communications Toolbox, allowing you to use many connections such as serial, modem, AppleTalk, MacTCP, MacISDN, and MacX.25, as well as any future connection tool created by third party vendors. uAccess provides a builtin terminal emulator which provides vt100 emulation, among others, and file transfer capability including MacBinary XMODEM. Finally, uAccess provides a complete Macintosh interface to these services, as well as the administrative tasks that are normally prohibitive in most UUCP implementations. * supports compressed batched news * a plethora of file conversion routines including: MacBinary, Binhex, UUEncode/UUDecode, Decompress, split/join, etc... * XCMD capability much like HyperCard with hooks so you can write your own code to process incoming mail and news * Version 2.0 will have both "tcl" the scripting language out of Berkley, AND Apple Events including "DoScript" * Full Mail support with MAC style interface * Full News support with MAC style interface * cron-like background tasks * custom scripting ability for special communications needs Reviews: -- Dick Munroe from email of: January 21, 1992 "A full featured mail and news implementation, fast, robust and it can even act as a server if you want it to." -- cusozim@cusozim.UUCP (CUSO Zimbabwe) "I am one happy guy. The file transfer went without a hitch. Un-binhexing, extraction and installation were flawless. Got through to isishq in Ottawa first try." -- daveh@cvedc.uucp (Dave Heinen) "Subject: Re: UUCP/Usenet for Mac Conclusion: if your are serious about uucp,mail/netnews for the mac and you want to use your machine during transfers you need to get uAccess. It's worth the price. -- glenn%gla-aux.uucp@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu (Glenn Austin) "Subject: Re: Mac/gnuucp 4.3? Date: 1 Jun 91 01:24:15 GMT In article <1CE00001...>, stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes: > Opinion Alert: I've used UUPC on the Mac and PC, dicked around with GNU's, > looked at TCP front ends.. on and on and on... nothing comes close.. > not even an ant within the shadow of uAccess as far as power and usability > are concerned.. and if ICE won't blow uAccess's horn on the net, then > I will! I use it daily. It is THE best thing out there.. I agree! In fact, it is FASTER than A/UX!!! (570 cps for A/UX vs. 685 cps for uAccess on a V.32 9600 baud link)." -- mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel) "Subject: Re: Mac news/mail software I've been extremely happy with uAccess. Even though it is a bit expensive, it has been one of the few Email packages which I don't find myself cursing for the kludgy way it does things. If you seriously need uucp mail, and you can't afford to have something make your machine something you're afraid to touch, it's probably worth it. If I could afford to use it as my network email system, I probably would recommend it over MS Mail/QuickMail." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package Name: UUPC - MAC Latest Version: UUPC 3.0 Last updated: 2/10/92 Developer/Author: Dave Platt News Support: Limited. It will spool incoming news articles or batches for offline processing, but doesn't include the software to do said processing... I'm hoping somebody will write some. It will transmit outbound news jobs if another program sets them up (e.g. Fernmail can post outbound news articles). Price: Freeware Availability: Anonymous FTP from: ftp.uu.net ~/communications/uupc SUMEX RASCAL or contact author Support: None promised. Source code available: Yes... from author or on FTP.UU.NET, and elsewhere. Platforms supported: MAC Protocols supported: Notable Features: A Mac port of UUPC; includes the UUPC/Extended 'g' protocol code. Also supports the 'f' protocol. Offers Mac-style interface with menus and windows. MultiFinder compatible. Can run in the background and be driven by a crontab-style schedule file. Supports file transfer & anonymous uucp from a public directory. Reviews: -- .Boyd Ostroff from email of: January 22, 1992 "Excellent re-write of the old version. I have been beta testing for several months. Dave has really done a nice job here. The old, confusing command line interface is gone. You can set it up to poll systems automatically in the background (mine calls my unix box every hour), it can accept incoming calls. Once you get it properly setup you can basically just forget about it and let it do its thing automatically in the background." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <<>>