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From: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: re: Consider IMAP instead of POP
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Date: 23 Mar 90 16:27:51 GMT
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Just to add a voice of support to Mark's note regarding IMAP:

I've been using the NeXT IMAP client exclusively (except when dialing in from
home) for the past year as well.  Previous to that, I used the Xerox Lisp IMAP
client for over a year (talking to both Unix and TOPS-20 servers).  We've many
Macintosh IMAP client users as well and the number is growing.

Mark didn't mention one other (undistributed) IMAP client implementation,
written in CommonLisp for the TI Explorer which is the most experimental and
powerful of the IMAP clients and will hopefully yield new ideas for the other
clients.

Although IMAP isn't the most advanced system (yet!) with respect to things
like multimedia, the effort so far has gone into it's design generality and
applicability to numerous, heterogeneous workstation environments as well as
optimizing/minimizing data transfer.

My opinion is biased as I work for SUMEX-AIM which provides the Unix IMAP
server (and several clients).  I was also directly involved with IMAP in the
final sorting out of the (original) Xerox Lisp client and design of the window
& menu layout incorporated in subsequent clients.

But trust me, it's great!

- Christopher
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