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In article <1992Oct13.113431.7685@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
>MIME is just a content encoding. The mail packages you mention are all 
>transport mechanisms as well. So you would have to run MIME over something,
>like POP2/POP3/IMAP2/IMAP3/..., and these protocols are not stable enough
>to be attractive to many commercial vendors, I suspect. 

Nope.. wrong.. these protocols are too stable enough ;-).  Though your
inclusion of IMAP v3 into that list isn't correct since the RFC which
is labeled IMAP v3 is not part of the Official IMAP development stream.

And as the fellow from CMU said, they're not working on replacing it
but on developing a protocol which handles mail management things
which the IMAP authors feel do not belong in IMAP.

Our MTA supports both POP3 and IMAP2, but we prefer IMAP2.  It allows
for delivery of messages while the folder is open, allows for
multiple folders on the servers, and allows us to store status
strings in the messages so we can track which have been read/answered/etc.

>Of course, each of these protocols is IP-based, which
>has its own problems in the PC/Mac environment,

Oh?  Just buy a TCP/IP implementation for your system.  There seems
to be dozens of companies with 'em ... ;-)

ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey) writes:
>What is P7?

P7 is part of the X.400 protocol suite.  It is sort of equivalent
to POP in capability.  It is mostly a maildrop, but does have some
intelligence in the entity which handles the maildrop as delivery
notification messages are to be generated there.  It doesn't allow
for more than one folder or any other sort of message grouping
in the P7 server.

I don't understand why a P7 server using MIME is a cool/nifty idea ...
MIME is a cool/nifty idea by itself regardless of which mailbox access
protocol you use.  But the X.400 world already has its own multi-body-part
standard so why would they want to use MIME?

And .. talking about reliable servers .. Why would a P7 server be
more/less reliable than, say, an IMAP server?


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