cc:Mail

I don't remember Guardian, but I do remember CC:Remote. It did use an interface system it would call and copy down the person's mailbox file as a weird sub-mailbox. I mean it worked, but it was a pain. Yes. Novell bought it from Wordperfect Inc, and re-badged Office to GroupWise. Groupwise could run as a shared file model or a client-server system with a POA running on NLMs. That worked pretty well, and I used that at Science from 2000-2013 or so. But it still had the SMTP NLM. CC:Mail was very parsnickity and blew up a lot. Likewise the SMTP gateway was very unreliable, I finally ran it on OS/2, but that wasn't around in late 1980's/early 90's. Sure! One of these days I really need to write all this stuff down. There was a lot going on at the dawn of the internet age, I still remember when we had the ceiling collapse at the Computer Society because all the serial cables in the ceiling for the VAX overloaded the drop ceiling. It was a funny moment that morning, a Sparc20 smushed under a ceiling.