>Is Blitzmail just for the University that invented it etc. or can it be
>used as a general mail reader, like Eudora? Anyone know?
BlitzMail is used at a handful of universities and commercial sites,
including Dartmouth College (where it was developed). The Mac BlitzMail
client can not be used as a "general mail reader" because it speaks an
IMAP-like protocol that is only supported by the BlitzMail server. But
the BlitzMail server supports POP3 (the protocol used by Eudora, among
others), and is the fastest POP3 server that we know of. So if you
install the BlitzMail server your users can choose between "general mail
readers" (i.e. POP3 clients) and the BlitzMail client. The major
advantage of using the BlitzMail client is that it keeps mail (and mailing
lists, and preferences) on the server. So your mail environment is the
same no matter where you connect from.
For more information see the BlitzMail web page at
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/blitz.html>.
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Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/>