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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   a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe there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The only other Mac IMAP client is MacMS and I believe it is now superceded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.
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All opinions are my own....
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Edgar Nielsen