Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: lgl@cac.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: P7 question Keywords: P7 IMAP Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 22:31:42 GMT Distribution: comp Lines: 30 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU x-attn: jns Here at U of Washington we're doing some work with IMAP, mostly writing clients. You probably know that IMAP (Interactive Mail Access Protocol, rfc1064) is similar to P7, particular in it's reason for existence. One of the advantages is that the user may read his mail from different PC's since it is all stored in one central place. He may use one PC when in one office, and a different PC from another office, and some other client when dialed in from home. It seems that users won't be able to switch client CPUs so freely when clients begin storing things, such as an address book, on the local CPU. The user would have to manually maintain consistency between address books on all his client machines. The reason a mailer might store things on the client machine is because P7 doesn't provide any means to store it on the server. I haven't got a hold of the X.400 docs yet and it's going to be a while, so I thought I'd ask here if P7 has any features for storing other state on the server, in particular, an address book. (or could this be in X.500??) A second request is for details on how the MS works. Does it store messages in different, named, mailboxes or folders? Does the protocol support getting a list of the names of these mailboxes or folders? Thanks.. -- Laurence Lundblade 206-543-5617 lgl@cac.washington.edu Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle