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Novell's MHS was originally developed by Action Technologies, Inc. (ATI) in 1986, and licenced, then bought, by Novell.

It provided a standard messaging service that could be shared by many applications, handling the collection, routing and delivery of messages and files across multiple computing environments.

Role as a gateway

MHS was a very 'open' system, and this, with Novell's encouragment, made it popular in the early 1990's as a 'glue' between the not only the propriortry email systems of the day such as PROFS, SNADS, MCI, 3+Mail and ccMail, but also the competing standards-based SMTP and X.400. By 1996 it was clear that SMTP across the Internet would be win as the universal email glue.

A compatible range of gateway products called Connect2 from Infinate Technologies (now Captaris) was also very widely used as part of MHS-based email networks.

Email clients

Pioneering Wndows-based da Vinci email and the free Pegasus email client both used MHS as their native protocol.


http://www.actiontech.com/about_us/Chronology.cfm http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana19951003.html

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