Mailstrom is an electronic mail reader for the Macintosh. Once it's installed
and set up, it presents an easy-to-use "Mac-like" interface to your e-mail
system. As an alternative to Mailstrom, you could also read mail on a Telnet
connection using PINE, but many people prefer using Mailstrom because it lets
you cut and paste between messages and other applications (such as Microsoft
Word) that you may be using on your Mac.

Mailstrom is the Macintosh software currently recommended by the campus folks
for reading e-mail, superseding the older MacMS program. Mailstrom also has
an address book feature.

Keep in mind that the mail messages you read via Mailstrom are exactly the same
ones you might otherwise look at using PINE -- and you can switch back and forth
between the two systems any time you want. So if you have trouble connecting
with Mailstrom, as sometimes happens when the hosts are heavily loaded, you
might have better luck logging in with Telnet and running PINE in order to read
your messages. They'll still be there next time you run Mailstrom.

Mailstrom can be obtained using Fetch from ftp.cac.washington.edu, with the
"anonymous" user ID, or I can furnish a copy for you.