Subject: Comments on Siren Mail?

From: [email-masked] (Jim Gogan)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 16:11:55 GMT

We're looking right now at the commercial IMAP Windows mail client
Siren Mail from Siren Software ("a division of Vicor, Inc.").  So far,
although we've seen some things that we feel need addressing, the user
interface is nicer than ANYTHING else we've seen from the IMAP client
end, and (finally) starts to approach some of the nicer interfaces of
other LAN-based (non-SMTP/POP/IMAP based) mail packages.

Right now, our campus has approximately 7,000 folks using DaVinci
email across campus.  For a variety of reasons, even though I'm the
one who got 'em there quite a few years ago, it's time now to move
them to an IMAP-based approach .... however, without a user interface
more like what they've got now, they're gonna break my kneecaps if I
propose moving to anything less.

So ..... the short question is, anyone else looked at Siren Mail?  If
so, any comments, thoughts, feedback?

Thanks.

-- Jim Gogan ([email-masked])
   Office of Information Technology
   Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill