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- From: edgar@coco.ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen)
- Subject: Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox )
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.211944.5406@coco.ms.washington.edu>
- Organization: Univ of Wash , Math Sciences Computing Center
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- References: <1992Aug27.180054.25603@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:19:44 GMT
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- Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
- >
- > ...
- > I also tried to get Mailstrom to work, before I read the appendix and saw
- > that the IMAP host it refers to is a completely different protocol:
- > [ rfc1203 Interactive Mail Access Protocol - version 3 (Obsoletes RFC 1064) ]
- > ( I also note, that in looking up that number, I see that I've been reading
- > a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe there
- > are added functions ? )
- > From another quick scan of the documents, this protocol seems to be
- > designed more for what I have in mind: access to a centralized mail repository
- > from multiple clients in a way that keeps changes common to all.
- >
- This is correct. So you can read your mail using any IMAP clients
- or, for unix, just use regular unix mailers if you want to(if the
- mail spool directory is mounted!). The one thing is that only 1 IMAP client
- can have read/write access at a time. So if you are reading your mail with
- pine on the unix side and then startup Mailstrom on a mac, the mailstrom
- session will be read-only.
-
- My understanding is that POP transfers all of your mail to the local
- machine when you connect while IMAP will only transfer all of the stuff
- if you tell it to do this. For example, when you look at the list of
- mail subjects, only the subjects are transferred to your IMAP client.
-
- >
- > Where can I find an IMAP server for unix ?
- 2 places I know of: sumex.stanford.edu in imap/server
- ftphost.cac.washington.edu in imap/imap.tar.Z
- Note that the pine mailer in there is a UNIX IMAP client....
- We use the one from ftphost - seems to work w/o problems.
-
- >
- > Are there any IMAP clients for MS-DOS ?
- > (or others for Mac besides Mailstrom?)
- I think the Univ. of Washington may be porting pine to DOS.... My sources
- are offline right now so I can't check the various README files for pine.
- The only other Mac IMAP client is MacMS and I believe it is now superceded
- by MailStrom - mailstrom seems pretty nice all and all.
- --
-
- All opinions are my own....
- ---------
- Edgar Nielsen
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