Need IMAP compliant mail readers...

Jack De Winter

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Nov 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/30/95

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I need a Windows 95/NT based IMAP client to test some additions that I
have made to our SMTP/POP3 server. Would anyone be able to set me in
the right direction for finding such a client?

regards,
Jack

Walt Pirie

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Dec 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/1/95

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In article <DIv14...@metrics.com>, jac...@metrics.com says...

Email Connection is a very good email client with IMAP server, but I haven't
checked if it has a 32bit version yet. check with

cwsapps.texas.net

Walt

Steve Johnson

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Dec 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/2/95

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In article <DIv14...@metrics.com>, jac...@metrics.com (Jack De Winter) says:
>
>I need a Windows 95/NT based IMAP client to test some additions that I
>have made to our SMTP/POP3 server. Would anyone be able to set me in

>the right direction for finding such a client?
>

>regards,
>Jack
>
Go take a look at:
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/clients-IMAP.html

Hope this helps.

Mel Ontiveros

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Dec 6, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/6/95

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In article <DIv14...@metrics.com>,

jac...@metrics.com (Jack De Winter) wrote:
>I need a Windows 95/NT based IMAP client to test some additions that I
>have made to our SMTP/POP3 server. Would anyone be able to set me in
>the right direction for finding such a client?
>
>regards,
>Jack
>

You might also look at Esys's Simeon (www.esys.ca), we are currently looking
at it under windows 3.x, but I've seen where they have a beta version out for
windows95.

Mel

Kevin Davis

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Dec 7, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/7/95

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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Chris Koenigsberg wrote:

>
> IMAP is the Internet Message Access Protocol. It has nothing to do
> with MAPI.

So what does it do?

Kevin Davis

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Dec 7, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/7/95

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Mel.On...@msfc.nasa.gov (Mel Ontiveros) wrote:

I'm not familar with the term IMAP in reference to mail. Web
browsers, yes. Mail, no. Was he referring to MAPI or am I just
ignornat of this term?

Jack De Winter

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Dec 11, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/11/95

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>>You might also look at Esys's Simeon (www.esys.ca), we are currently looking
>>at it under windows 3.x, but I've seen where they have a beta version out
for
>>windows95.
>
>I'm not familar with the term IMAP in reference to mail. Web
>browsers, yes. Mail, no. Was he referring to MAPI or am I just
>ignornat of this term?

IMAP is Internet Messaging Access Protocol, and is POP3's big brother.
It doesn't really have any relevance to web...

regards,
Jack

Hugh McIntyre

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Dec 21, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/21/95

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It's a client-server email protocol so that you can have an email client
running on one machine speaking over TCP/IP to a server containing your
mailbox. The client sends commands like "give me a list of any new
messages", "give me the text of message #", delete message #", "save
message # in folder ###", etc. Some of these things can be done by POP
as well, but IMAP can do more. Also, crucially, with IMAP the mailbox
and folders stay on the server.

For more info, see the IMAP RFC (rfc1730 and others), or see the abtract from
RFC-1730 below.

The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4 (IMAP4) allows a
client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server.
IMAP4 permits manipulation of remote message folders, called
"mailboxes", in a way that is functionally equivalent to local
mailboxes. IMAP4 also provides the capability for an offline client
to resynchronize with the server (see also [IMAP-DISC]).

IMAP4 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages;
setting and clearing flags; RFC 822 and MIME parsing; searching; and
selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions
thereof. Messages in IMAP4 are accessed by the use of numbers.
These numbers are either message sequence numbers (relative position
from 1 to the number of messages in the mailbox) or unique
identifiers (immutable, strictly ascending values assigned to each
message, but which are not necessarily contiguous).

IMAP4 supports a single server. A mechanism for supporting multiple
IMAP4 servers is discussed in [IMSP].

IMAP4 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is
handled by a mail transfer protocol such as [SMTP].

IMAP4 is designed to be upwards compatible from the [IMAP2] protocol.
Compatibility issues are discussed in [IMAP-COMPAT].

Hugh.