Re: [WinMac] Re: Cross-platform email

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:24:05 -0700

IMAP stands for Internet Mail Access Protocol, which is sort of the next
generation beyond POP.

The details and links to a number of different sources of software (both
server and client) are at:

http://www.imap.org/

But, basically, IMAP is server-based client/server e-mail; server based,
in that the mail stores (messages and folders) reside on the server, C/S
in that the email reader application runs on the client, not the server
as in terminal-based e-mail.

IMNSHO it represents the best of all e-mail worlds...like POP there are
a number of client applications, like terminal based mail, I can access
my e-mail from just about anywhere, on any platform.

POP is fine for a 1 person , 1 computer setup, but we have professors
here who may have 4 or more workstations they normally use: office PC,
Lab PC, Home PC, laptop for the road, and our loaner laptop for when
theirs _meets_ the road ;-) With this setup POP would be utterly
unworkable, particularly when, for instance, a desktop system dies.

People don't lose everything then. All we have to do is swap in a box
with the applications on it , and voila' they're up and running again.

The downside, of course, is that it eats server space, but that's cheap
disks, and backup tapes; e-mail turned into the killer app of our
network about 5 minutes after we lit it up.

LaPedis, Ron wrote:
>
> What is imap and where can I get more info on it?
>
> Thanks!
> Ron LaPedis
> Compaq Tandem Division
> Global Development Systems & Engineering
> Cupertino, California USA
> Phone +1 (408) 285-7787
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>
> DISCLAIMER: All personal and professional opinions presented herein are my
> own and do not, in any way, represent the opinion or policy of Compaq
> Computers.
>
> On Friday, December 18, 1998 07:45, Leonard Rosenthol
> [SMTP:leonardr@Adobe.COM] wrote:
> > At 6:43 AM -0700 12/18/98, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > Unless you're using an IMAP mail server instead of a POP
> > > one...since last time
> > > I looked, Eudora/Mac _still_ didn't support IMAP...If this has changed
> it's
> > > been in the last few months, and I haven't heard any announcements.
> > >
> >
> > You haven't been looking hard enough then Bruce ;). Eudora
> > 4.1 (just released on Windows, and in public beta for Mac) supports
> > IMAP - and quite well!
> >
> >
> >
> > LDR
> >
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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