My direct conversations with Sun on the issue of Java support for the Macintosh were ealier this year. They told me to contact Gary Little, who was/is in charge of Apple's Java development. I knew Gary from his Apple //GS days and Hyperstudio, so I sent him a question regarding this. He told me in his response that Apple was going to use M$'s JVM and JIT.. Exactly what I did NOT want to hear. I also read that Metrowerks was stopping development of their Mac JVM due to Apple's selection of the M$ JVM. At one point there were going to be as many as 5 JVM's for mac, but now that is no longer the case.
I wonder if and how this has changed due to recent DOO (Difference of Opinion) exhibited by Apple's Tevaninan and Microsoft regarding M$ heavy-handed tactics to get M$IExploder installed as the "Broswer of Choice" (a misnomer if ever their was one) in MacOS releases for the next 5 years - a peice of testimony in the US vs M$ Anti-trust trial.
Why do you need a POP3 mail client when Netscape has one built into Communicator Pro? (let me guess - Communicator Pro's huge memory requirements)
As far as I know, the HDS Email plug-in only works with Mail Server and cannot access other POP 3 servers. What is the requirement for this capability? Users should implement direct addressing (ie one address/per user) and mail forwarding mechanisms (forward.txt in the TF scheme, and .forward files in unix scheme) to obtain their mail from as few sources as possible. If multiple sources are required, rather than just desired, then each of these sources should have a POP3 compliant server and the users briefed on how to re-configure their POP3 clients of choice for direct access.
On 11/02/1998 08:35 PM, Jim DeHaven wrote:
>Is there any generic web program that is a popmail client (java or >plugin?) that works well with mac clients? I guess one problem with the >ones I saw appears to be that they want java1.1 which I don't think >netscape (even version 4.5) supports (I am still praying for th mac >version of Sun's plug-in to be released) >
>Has anyone compiled/used Mailpuccino? or know anything about it? > >Any other suggestions? > >On 11/2/98 2:18 PM, Rusty Tucker wrote: > >>On 11/2/98 8:53 AM, Jim DeHaven wrote: >> >>>I seem to recall someone saying that HDS mail can be used as a generic > >>>POP3 client, i.e. that there was a way to make it sign on and utilize >>>mail servers that were different thatn the one on the machine that was > >>>running TFserver that HDS was attached to. >> >> >>You can use HDS Mail if your TeleFinder Mailbox is POP3, but I don't >>think it will grab email from another server. >> >> >>Rusty Tucker >>Spider Island
--- Daniel O'Leary, Sysop KloneZone Mac - A TeleFinder 5.7 Mac/Windows BBS
