Mailstrom Stirs the Email Waters
Mailstrom is an electronic mail program you will want to
consider if you use a Macintosh computer connected to the UW
campus network. Instead of connecting to a Uniform Access
computer and using the Pine email program, you can start
Mailstrom directly on your Macintosh. (Note that Mailstrom
cannot be used over the existing C&C modem pool.)
If your department supports SLIP (a way of using Internet
protocols over dialup lines) then you can use this program
via a modem connection.
Like PC-Pine, Mailstrom allows you to reach your email inbox when you use other computers. It is easy to learn--Mailstrom looks and feels like a typical Macintosh program--and includes popular features such as an address book for frequently used email addresses. Mailstrom allows you to insert plain text files from the Macintosh desktop into email messages, reducing the need to transfer files between your Uniform Access account and your Macintosh. You can also save email messages in a folder on the Macintosh local disk.
The current version of Mailstrom does not support the MIME
standard for multipart/ multimedia email, but an upcoming
version will. Once it does, you will be able to send and
receive Microsoft Word or PageMaker documents, SuperPaint
files, or other Macintosh files in email messages.
Mailstrom was developed by Adam Treister at Stanford University. It supersedes MacMS, another email program developed at Stanford. MacMS will not be further developed, so its users should plan to switch to Mailstrom.