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By now, users have been cruising around the Web for quite some time. They've visited exciting and perhaps exotic graphical pages from all over the world, found interesting information, listened to music and seen videos. So, why are they still using their old text-based e-mail packages?
There is no single e-mail package that has grabbed the imagination the way Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator has grabbed the attention of World Wide Web users. Still, it is e-mail and not the Web that many business users say is the most important reason for having access to the Internet. For this reason, we looked at two Microsoft Windows-based commercial e-mail packages designed to work within corporate environments.
Both packages, QualComm Inc.'s Eudora Pro 2.2 and ConnectSoft's E-Mail Connection 2.5.03, are designed to handle mail through network connections to the Internet or to corporate servers using Unix-based mail protocols.
In addition, both packages work with standard Windows TCP/IP interfaces, and they support dial-up connections. In spite of their similarities, they are different packages, and each is well-suited to different tasks. Many companies will find good reason to have both products available to meet the differing needs of individual users.
How They Work
Both packages are designed to interact with a standard POP 3 e-mail server and to send mail using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Both products work through a dial-up connection or through a local area network, as long as there is a Windows Sockets interface available. The E-Mail Connection, in addition, is designed to download mail from a number of other e-mail services besides the Internet.
Both packages also are designed to seamlessly handle binary transfers across the...