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Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox )

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From: Ken Hush
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   a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe  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superceded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

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Ken Hush                                                                            
Computer Services, Applications Engineering              
Corporate Information Office  
Motorola                                       
1299, East Algonquin Road,                                                                      
Schaumburg, IL 60196                                                 
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