From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 01:24:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28008 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA27998 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zTMDt-00045G-00; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:23:57 +0200 Message-ID: <19981014102357.B15643@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:23:57 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: rward@netcom.ca, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: IMAP Mail-Followup-To: rward@netcom.ca, FreeBSD Questions References: <000201bdf70a$99158560$97176c18@blade.v-wave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000201bdf70a$99158560$97176c18@blade.v-wave.com>; from Ryan Ward on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:35:52PM -0600 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 at 18:35 SAT, Ryan Ward wrote: > > What are peoples experience with imap type email clients and servers? > Curious whether people hate it or have probs with it. IMAP can be the solution to many problems and headaches, if correctly implemented. POP was a curiously incomplete protocol - more a kludge than anything else. Have a look at: http://www.imap.org/ To the best of my knowledge, none of the current batch of Windows mail clients support IMAP correctly/completely. This will change, I think. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message