That only partly solves the problem. An email client being able to configure this feature is not an appropriate admin tool to perform this simple task for groups of users.
Sure Outlook is not the best POP or IMAP client. Both Outlook and IMail suck for what RMilner wants to accomplish with POP. Whenever possible, I would deploy IMAP over POP as well. It's not an unreasonable feature request for an email server to handle. William On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:06, Sanford Whiteman wrote: > > But if it is handled at the email client side, then the damage is > > already done - as the email had to be retrieved off the server at > > that point. > > Wrong. As others have pointed out, you're seeing the limitations of > Outlook more than those of IMail. Your objection to IMail--"written > from a programmer's point of view and not an end user's"--would be > better assigned to Outlook (except you should substitute "marketer's" > for "programmer's"). > > A smart mail client, such as The Bat!, can perform server-side pruning > of messages without taking up any extra bandwidth. It features a > "dispatch mail on server" feature which solves your problem, pure and > simple. Other mail clients can do the same, as well as automatically > leaving large messages on the server, (and I actually believe that > very old versions of OL did as well, IIRC). The POP3 verbs are there > to do all of this; if Outlook doesn't use them, it's not using > standards-based functions. While it would be nice if IMail had this > ability, my finger stays pointed at MS. > > -Sandy > > > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
