Hi,
This is a thorny issue.
I have tried many clients with both my own IMAP implementation and the
RH7 default Linux server.
None of them are consistent with the others. Each uses its own ways to
determine which content is current and some of them produce very strange
results.
I will exclude Pine from my discussion because, while it is much liked
by Marc, I have never heard of a single commercial user using it and
none of the customers I have ever asked have heard of it. Given that
many of us work in the constraints of the commercial world, Pine is just
not there.
This is a brief roundup of what I've found. Don�t take this as gospel
because it may be that my testing was flawed in some way.
MS Outlook
Seems to work ok, but doesn�t reflect updated from a concurrent
client (marked as unread/undeleted etc) until a delay has occurred.
MS Outlook Express
Seems to work fine. Concurrent connections are ok, but it seems
to only search by downloading everything into its own mail store.
Eudora
Doesn�t display folder trees correctly.
The Bat!
Seems to be fine. Uses SEARCH to determine new messages !
Kmail
Doesn�t display folders correctly.
Ximian 1.2
Displays the folders, but doesn�t seem to want to show what's in
them
MacMail
Works fine.
Thunderbird
Seems to work. But occasionally disconnects and gets in a
pickle.
Many of the features that don�t seem to be interoperable may be due to
the lack of facilities for the client writers to test with. The IMAP
server I have under RH doesn�t permit concurrent connections or nested
folders so while all the above are fine with flat folder, single
connection servers I suspect that the writers were simply unable to test
against servers that has the full feature set available.
Its hard to believe that IMAP4 was approved in 1994 and we are still, 10
years later, in a situation that the clients and server writers cannot
produce a single consistent set of results and answers to the question
"What is a good imap client" gets the answer "Pine"!
Regards
Richard Bang
Floosietek Ltd
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http://www.floosietek.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DINH Vi�t Ho�
> Sent: 29 October 2003 17:50
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Recommendations for IMAP Client
>
>
> Chad Woolley wrote :
>
> > I'm not at all attached to Mozilla, it's just the best one
> I've found
> > for free, but I'm looking for better.
>
> bad idea to say that on that list. Someone will reply you should use
> pine.
>
> --
> DINH V. Hoa,
>
> "�crire 'dsl' au lieu de 'd�sol�', c'est pas un probl�me
> d'orthographe,
> c'est un probl�me de capillarit� palmaire" -- ed
>
>
