Mailbase

Section-Update: 17 Oct 94

Mailbase is funded by the Joint Information Services Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland, and Wales. Its services are very popular in the U.K., and the program itself provides many useful features, friendly command syntax and user messages, and good efficiency.

Unusual features

Features for users

Features for administrators

Mailing lists and other information resources

To find out the basics of using Mailbase, write "send mailbase user-guide" in the body of a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. Or, take a look through http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/ or gopher://gopher.mailbase.ac.uk/ ... lots of Mailbase documentation is available there, as well as searching facilities for Mailbase lists and archives.

System requirements

Mailbase is available for SunOS 4.1.1 and 4.1.3 on Sun 4/4m/4c's, and for Solaris 2.3. For Mailbase to run, your system must also have two other packages installed: Ingres 6.3 (or later) and Perl.

Cost and licensing

Write to mailbase-helpline@mailbase.ac.uk.

How to get it

Mailbase source code is not available. However, the binaries can be licensed at no charge; write to mailbase-helpline@mailbase.ac.uk. To save the Mailbase developers' sanity, you should have some understanding of Ingres, Unix, and Mailbase itself (as a list owner/member) before you attempt to install Mailbase.