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To: Miami's Electronic Mail
From: Allison Debra on Tue, Apr 18, 1995 2:20 PM
Subject: Follow up: e-mail recommendation
To the members of the Email working group:
I wish to schedule a time for us to meet to discuss the Email proposal and
moving forward. Can you please email me at [log in to unmask] with the
following information:
(1) Can you meet on Thursday, May 4 (finals week) from 1:30 - 3:30 in Room 2
Hughes?
(2) Do you want a legal license copy of Eudora (Qualcomm's version) to test?
If so, I need to know whether you need the Macintosh or Windows version. (I
have a very limited fund to provide some people in our Email working group
and end-users with the software.) I also need to involve some end-users in
this test. Do you have recommendations? We need a cross-section of
computing expertise represented. As a side-note, some current PMail users
(Windows) and MS Mail users (Mac) are not at all happy with the client
interface provided by Eudora. A comment I've heard from several people is
that we will have great difficulty convincing the majority of clients to
switch from MS Mail or Pegasus Mail to Eudora. Those people who recognize
and/or make use of the more advanced features of Eudora seem to be very
pleased so far.
MCIS has been requested by David Stonehill to have an email package selected
and ready to implement at the time the CAB departments move into CAB
(scheduled to begin in early July) so that we avoid giving people one product
and then soon thereafter switching them to something else. Student Financial
Aid, Admission, Bursar, Learning Assistance, Internal Auditing, Disability
Resources are all moving into CAB and will be using desktop email for the
first time -- some have not used email at all. The Registrar currently uses
MS Mail.
One option that has been discussed is to recommend Qualcomm's Eudora for the
Mac, and the new POP3 compliant Pegasus Mail for Windows clients. But we
need to be prepared for the fact that many MS Mail clients won't be wowed by
the Eudora interface. Does Pegasus Mail for the Mac meet our requirements
identified below? We can discuss at the meeting, or via posts back to this
LISTSERV in the meantime.
Thank you all for your assistance. Please email me your responses to
questions (1) and (2) above, and tentatively mark your calendars for
Thursday, May 4 at 1:30 in 2 Hughes. Thanks.
_______________________________________________________________________________
To: Multiple recipients of list MUEMAIL
From: Miami's Electronic Mail on Fri, Feb 17, 1995 10:14 AM
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Poster: Debra Allison <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: (Fwd) DRAFT e-mail recommendation doc
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To the members of the Email working group:
Please review the draft recommendation regarding a proposed strategy
for implementation of electronic mail services. Please make comments
to me by Friday, Feb. 23 (one week from today). Assuming that we can
reach consensus, I will take this to the MCIS Management Team meeting
on Monday, Feb. 27. Please feel free to email back to this list if
you wish to generate discussion among the members, or to me directly
at [log in to unmask]
Thank you for your input.
Debi
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:26:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: DRAFT e-mail recommendation doc
To: Debra Hust Allison <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
Organization: Miami University (Ohio USA)
D R A F T
The Electronic Mail Working Group respectfully recommends the following
strategy for the deployment and support of electronic mail services for
Miami University students, staff and faculty:
Directions:
(1) Mail should continue to be supported (at Level 1) on all
centrally-managed, multiuser platforms.
These platforms presently include the IBM VM/CMS system (MiamiU) and
the DEC OpenVMS system in Oxford (MiaVX1). All Miami students, staff
and faculty are automatically provided accounts on these systems.
Access to these systems is available through the campus network and
via dial-in modems.
(2) Mail to each client's desktop / laptop, adhering to POP3 standards,
should be the University's strategic goal, and migration to desktop /
laptop mail delivery should be strongly encouraged and supported to
the greatest extent possible.
Desktop / laptop mail is available to any Miami student, staff or
faculty member whose desktop or laptop Macintosh or DOS / Windows
compatible computer has an appropriate connection to the campus network.
Desktop / laptop mail uses a client / server architecture which allows
client software on the desktop / laptop computer to connect to a server
computer elsewhere at the University, to receive and send electronic
mail. Various existing platforms throughout the University -- the
IBM VM/CMS system (MiamiU), the DEC OpenVMS system in Oxford (MiaVX1),
Novell servers running NetWare version 4.x, and others -- are capable
of serving desktop / laptop mail to POP3 standards. This capability
is presently implemented (on a test basis) on MiaVX1, the MUServer1
Novell server, and other platforms at Miami.
A commercial software package is recommended for Level 1 support at
Miami: Eudora by Qualcomm, for the Macintosh, DOS and DOS / Windows
platforms.
(3) Mail to the desktop / laptop which does not support POP3 standards
should be strongly discouraged and gradually discontinued across the
University. Such mail includes commercial Microsoft Mail software
(by Microsoft), and early versions of noncommercial Pegasus Mail
shareware (by David Harris of New Zealand).
[Microsoft Mail is no longer being developed or supported as a separate
product by Microsoft Corporation.]
(4) The Electronic Mail Working Group should continue to monitor the
development of POP3 compliant products for possible consideration
for use and support within Miami University.
(5) The Electronic Mail Working Group should also monitor development of
the Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) and IMAP-compliant products
for possible future consideration.
Implementation:
(1) POP3 server capability should be implemented (on a test basis) on the
IBM VM/CMS system (MiamiU) during Spring Semester 1995.
(2) Testing of POP3 server capability on MiamiU, MiaVX1 and MUServer1
should be continued and extended through the Spring Semester and summer
of 1995.
(3) The Network Services Plan Working Group and MCIS Technical Services
should consider and make recommendations regarding appropriate
platforms for serving POP3 mail service.
(4) Necessary licensing arrangements for University wide use of Eudora
should be made and in place no later than 15 May 1995.
(5) New network installations should include Eudora configuration *as a
standard component* effective 15 May 1995, and continuing thereafter.
(6) Existing users of products other than Eudora or POP3-compliant Pegasus
Mail should be migrated from their present products to these new
products in as timely, but as orderly, a manner as possible.
(7) Support for Microsoft Mail, non-POP3-compliant Pegasus Mail, and other
desktop / laptop mail products should be officially withdrawn no later
than 30 June 1996.
Draft 1995 Feb 16 (Thu) / jbh
(with thanks to kac for last minute reality check)
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John B Harlan
Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
Miami University (Ohio USA)
http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~HarlanJB/
[log in to unmask] (513) 529-1496 fax (513) 529-5330 voice
Debra Allison
Assistant Director for Client Services
Computing & Information Services
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-5322
Fax: (513) 529-1496
Internet: [log in to unmask]
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John B Harlan
Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
Miami University (Ohio USA)
http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~HarlanJB/
(513) 529-5330 (513) 529-1496 fax [log in to unmask]
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