On 9/23/03 5:49 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/23/03 1:54 PM, "Hannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering whether there were significant differences in the IMAP >> implementation between MacOSX Mail and EntourageX (latest version). My >> University provides me with an IMAP account that requires ssl and it > works >> flawlessly with Mail but produces a wrong ID or password error message > in >> ErageX. >> In previous discussion of ErageX and IMAP I usually get the response > that my >> provider should comply to the IMAP standards - well I am not an expert > but I >> get the VERY SAME request from the user support - and they claim to do > IMAP >> by the book that there must be something wrong the way ErageX handles > IMAP. > > This seems to be a controversial topic. > > I work at the University of Washington (in Seattle), and our campus > email > system is based on IMAP. In fact, the computing department here has > been > involved in the consortium developing IMAP, and UW-IMAP is one of the > more > popular server implementations. > > For OS X users, the university computing staff officially supports > Apple's > Mail program. They do not support Entourage (neither the OS 9 or OS X > versions) and some individuals in the support group specifically > recommend > against using it. They cited internal studies which allegedly show that > Entourage does not properly comply with IMAP standards. They also cited > frequent reports from users of "database corruption", although it was > not > clear to me whether they were referring to problems with the server-side > or > client-side databases. > I've used both Entourage and Mail with Exchange as the IMAP server. I've had mixed results with both. Entourage does seem to have some protocol problems with both Exchange and the UW-IMAP server. I've reported them to Microsoft. Mail seems to have some capacity problems (e.g., mailboxes larger than 32M). -- Glenn Henshaw Altera Ottawa Technology Center Phone: (613) 591-6702 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
