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- From: khush@csskwh (Ken Hush)
- Subject: Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox )
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- Organization: MOTOROLA
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:39:28 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug27.211944.5406@coco.ms.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug27.211944.5406@coco.ms.washington.edu>
- edgar@coco.ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen) writes:
- > 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 a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe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
-
- Where can I get a copy of Mailstrom ?
-
- Thanks
-
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