I would add that I am looking at Sendmail and Cyrus IMAP as a replacement system for our Novell Groupwise email. There are quite a few differences between Exchange/Groupwise and IMAP and of course even differences between the various implementations of IMAP servers. In my research I have found Cyrus to be most like Exchange/Groupwise. Something to consider before you make the switch is how much you really need the functionality above and beyond straight email that you need. For example in Exchange you are able to setup meetings, calendar events, journaling, tasklists, etcetera. There are a lot tools centered around collaboration and complete personal information management. In contrast IMAP is more focused on being a postoffice just for your email, collaboration and sharing tools are slowly being added into the whole package via LDAP, IMSP, and others. One of the more simple problems I have encountered is how do you support a centralized addressbook with an IMAP implementation. Sure you can have shared folders, but those folders can only contain email messages. It would be a REAL pain the a** to have to setup everyone on the network with their own addressbook and have to manage keeping them all up to date. I have since discovered that both Mulberry and Eudora have the ability to create a centralized addressbook, each using their own unique solution. If you can live without the integration of collaboration tools in your email system such as Exchange/Groupwise provide, then I would definitely go for an IMAP system over POP any day. Plus, Cyrus supports both IMAP and POP3 anyway, so even if your email client won't support IMAP you can still access your Cyrus IMAP email stores. I have tested logging into my inbox from the same computer using both an IMAP and POP client at the same time without a problem. As an added bonus there is a nice webmail client called Silkymail that is painless to setup and it works very well, providing you with yet another way to access your IMAP server. Hope this helps, good luck. -JL PS - the account from which I am sending this email is sitting on a Cyrus IMAP server, I am using Outlook 2000 as my client, and Sendmail as the MTA. > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:50:53PM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Ok, how exactly does IMAP work and differ from POP3? Is it anytyhing > > like how MS Exchange works and delivers email instantly without > > checking? Heck I use pop3 at home but thought of trying out IMAP but > > I haven't read anything up on it or seen it live at work. > > > > Mike Chambers > > Netlyncs > > It seems to me that the biggest difference is that with IMAP you can save > messages to folders on the remote server. This allows you to use the > remote server from multiple IMAP email clients without any loss of access > to stored messages. > > With POP you either keep the messages locally in folders (which means you > cannot access them from a secondary email client), or you have to keep > them in your INBOX (which means you cannot organize you email well). > > HTH > > -- > > -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- > Jon Lapham > Extracta Moléculas Naturais, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.extracta.com.br/ > ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
