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Article #1067Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox )
From: Ken Hush
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 21:39
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 21:39
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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 a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe there 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 The only other Mac IMAP client is MacMS and I believe it is now superceded 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 -- Ken Hush Computer Services, Applications Engineering Corporate Information Office Motorola 1299, East Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, IL 60196
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ftpbox!motsrd!mothost!schbbs!news From: khush@csskwh (Ken Hush) Subject: Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox ) Reply-To: khush@mot.com Organization: MOTOROLA Distribution: comp.mail.misc Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:39:28 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep2.213928.2603@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1992Aug27.211944.5406@coco.ms.washington.edu> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) Nntp-Posting-Host: 129.188.151.176 Lines: 68