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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>[MD1] Apple Supports IMAP and LDAP</h1></div>
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<p>Apple Supports IMAP Mail Protocol to Provide Customers With Internet<br />
Industry Protocols, Ease-of-Use</p>
<p>Apple Also Announced Support for LDAP Internet Directory Services<br />
Protocol</p>
<p>IMAP FORUM, SEATTLE--Nov. 7, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc. announced yesterday<br />
that it will support the Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) in future Mac<br />
OS Internet mail products, offering customers industry-standard protocols<br />
and greater ease-of-use. IMAP will allow users to access both newly arrived<br />
and already read email easily from home, the office, or on the road.</p>
<p>IMAP is a fast-growing industry mail standard for next generation mail<br />
services, and an evolution of POP (Post Office Protocol)/SMTP (Simple Mail<br />
Transport Protocol) mail protocols in wide use today. For Mac OS customers,<br />
IMAP will provide increased control over the exchange of electronic<br />
messages and flexibility in message access. IMAP permits a user to<br />
selectively download messages at any particular time. Messages left on the<br />
server can be retrieved at another time or from a different workstation.</p>
<p>Apple announced support for the IMAP standard yesterday at the second<br />
International IMAP Forum, hosted by the University of Washington. "It is a<br />
testimony to the attractiveness of open Internet standards that<br />
client-server POP mail has become pervasive despite its inferiority in<br />
feature set to the host-based mail systems that preceded it," said Larry<br />
Tesler, vice president of Apple's AppleNet division. "Apple is committed to<br />
incorporating standard Internet technologies into our products, but we are<br />
equally committed to providing customers the best on-line experience. With<br />
IMAP, we can go along way to meeting both goals at once."</p>
<p>To ensure interoperability and compatibility, Apple joined industry<br />
leaders, including Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corp., to<br />
support this emerging standard for mail services.</p>
<p>"Apple support for key open email and groupware standards such as IMAP and<br />
LDAP means the Cyberdog client and Macintosh server software will be able<br />
to interoperate with Netscape Communicator and Netscape SuiteSpot servers,"<br />
said Eric Hahn, senior vice president of Servers at Netscape. "Common<br />
Internet mail and directory standards such as IMAP and LDAP provide<br />
customers with freedom of choice in selecting the interoperable tools that<br />
work best for them from a broad variety of vendors."</p>
<p>"Apple and Sun's commitment to IMAP4 and open Internet mail standards<br />
further cements our previously announced strategic relationship to deliver<br />
seamless interoperability for customers deploying Apple Macintosh desktop<br />
computers and Sun enterprise servers," said Sun's vice president for<br />
Solstice Products, Terry Keeley. "IMAP4 means clean interoperation between<br />
mail servers and clients, giving customers the powerful benefits of Apple<br />
mail clients and Sun's Solstice Internet Mail Servers."</p>
<p>Apple is working closely with its developer community on IMAP products.<br />
Companies and institutions who are developing IMAP mail products for the<br />
Mac OS include Mail Drop from Baylor University, PowerMail for IMAP by CTM,<br />
Mulberry by CydaSoft, Simeon from Esys, and Mailstrom by Tree Star<br />
Software. Piquant Software is developing IMAP client and server products<br />
for the Mac OS.</p>
<p>The IMAP Protocol: Benefits to End Users An IMAP mail server stores all of<br />
a user's mail messages on a central server. Although a user may download a<br />
message to a local workstation, a copy is retained on the server. With a<br />
POP/SMTP-based mail server, once a message is downloaded to the client<br />
machine, the mail server automatically deletes the message. As a result, a<br />
user's mail resides on a single machine or is scattered among different<br />
machines. For the education market, where users typically outnumber<br />
available computers, students can use any workstation to access all of<br />
their mail.</p>
<p>IMAP is a robust protocol giving users greater control over downloading<br />
mail messages to their machine. IMAP sends only the headers of new mail<br />
messages allowing users to decide which messages to download for reading.<br />
Mobile professionals on the road can save time by no longer, having to<br />
download all their new mail at once. Instead they can download only the<br />
messages needing attention first and save other messages, such as mail with<br />
file attachments, for downloading at another time or when they return to<br />
the office network. Also, mobile professionals no longer need to carry all<br />
their mail with them or be concerned with losing messages during network<br />
connection failure.</p>
<p>Apple Supports LDAP Apple has also announced support for Lightweight<br />
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in future Mac OS client and server<br />
products. An important function of a mail system is the user directory--the<br />
ability to locate users and address mail messages. LDAP is a highly<br />
interoperable, platform independent, broadly supported industry standard<br />
for directory services on the Internet. Apple's adoption of LDAP continues<br />
its support of Internet industry standards, and the company intends to<br />
bring traditional Apple ease-of-use to the LDAP Internet standard.</p>
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