Subject: Re: Microsoft/MIME/ WAS: re: Trying to Configure Pine

From: [email-masked] (Ken Hardy)
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 13:52:24 CST

> Hi folks, i was wonderinf if anyone could give me more information about
> Microsoft (and other LAN packages), supporting IMAP and/or MIME.  Mr. Crispin

I'd received in the past some information about a cc:Mail <--> SMTP
gateway that automatically converts cc:Mail attachments to/from MIME.
I've no experience with this product as, unfortunately, we're using a
less ambition gateway.  This is no the same as native support, but
helps.  I don't recall the product.

I read in some industry rag that the next major release of cc:Mail will
include native MIME support.  Sorry, cannot recall the reference.  I do
recall that it was not expected for quite some time.

-KH

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From: Steve Hole <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 08:29:02 -0700

On Mon, 8 Nov 1993 19:48:53 -0700 Alex Tang wrote:

> From: Alex Tang
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 19:48:53 -0700
> Subject: Microsoft/MIME/ WAS: re: Trying to Configure Pine
> To: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Pine Info <[email-masked]>
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1993, Mark Crispin wrote:
> 
> hints here that Microsoft will.  This could make for an interesting turn of
> events in mail.  (How about Lotus?)

I just spent a week at the Email World conference at which I talked with some
of the engineers in Microsoft.   At this time they have not even started 
adding MIME support to their gateway products.   They indicated that they 
did not have any plans to support MIME as the native message format for 
Microsoft Mail messages.   They do have a plan to support X.400 message formats
at some point in the future.  

Cheers.

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