Philip, It is the function of any network-related software introduced to an existing environment to be as compatible as possible with the existing installed software.
Standards sometimes facilitate this (obviously TCP/IP is a good example) and sometimes hinder it considerably (the original unimplementable SMB spec leaps to mind). I like software that adheres to open standards, but if I have a thousand Outlook clients which need to move to IMAP, I will be far more interested in how well the IMAP server I'm looking at conforms to Outlook's idea of an IMAP server than how well it adheres to the RFCs. There's nothing political about it: you can only have so much change in a given time and it's always easier to change the server than to change the client. _________________________________ Thorne Lawler Senior Systems Administrator t: +61 3 8329 2026 f: +61 3 9326 7588 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microlistics A Dawson Group Company www.microlistics.com.au _________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phillip > Hutchings > Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2004 3:03 PM > To: Stroller > Cc: Courier Users > Subject: Re: [courier-users] OT: Courier v Cyrus v anything else..? > > > > The IMAP server must play nice with LDAP, and should use maildirs. It > > must also support the widest variety of email clients possible. > > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the client's job to support the > IMAP protocol correctly, not the server's job to support the client's > quirks? > > -- > Phillip Hutchings > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sitharus.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
