IMHO, Steve's exactly right.
Remember that Steve's comparing the proprietary Exchange MAPI RPC protocol with the IMAP protocol.
The Exchange protocol is orders of magnitude richer than IMAP, but it's not standard (which is why it's totally proprietary :)).
But is it fair to say that the Exchange protocol is a protocol in the same sense as IMAP, or even a true protocol at all? I am not meaning to suggest these things, I am really asking. The reason is because, it seems to me, RPC is really the protocol and what you can do over RPC is so unlimited it seems hardly appropriate to call that a protocol. Am I off base here?
Pete Maclean
