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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: new IMAP distribution available
Message-ID: <11360@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 06:22:58 GMT
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A new release of the IMAP2 multi-platform distributed e-mail system is
now available via anonymous FTP from FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (IP
address 128.95.112.1) as imap/imap.tar.Z.

Inside the imap.tar.Z distribution are three new servers, all of which
run under inetd.  These are: a complete rewrite of the IMAP2 server, a
POP2 server, and a POP3 server.  Additionally, the POP2/POP3 servers
are also IMAP clients, providing a POP->IMAP gateway to allow you to
leverage on your existing POP-based PC clients yet still use IMAPware.

Client programs include the NeXT MailManager and EasyMail programs,
the Macintosh MacMS program, and the Unix MS program.  We hope to have
a version of the Unix Pine program available for distribution in the
NeXT release.  A PC client (Pine or other) is planned for the 2nd
quarter of 1991 (= my boss has told me "enough waiting for someone
else to do it, *you* do it").

Both clients and servers use the same c-client library for mailbox
access, supporting local mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail and mail.txt
format as well as remote IMAP mailboxes in a transparent fashion.
Among other things, this ensures complete compatibility and
interoperability between POP, IMAP, and local mailbox access in this
release.

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