Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 5:14:48 AM, Michael wrote:
> The Bat seems to have inferior IMAP support. The whole point of IMAP is that
> the mailboxes are stored on the server, so that you see the same mailboxes
> and messages regardless of what client you use.
Yes, that is the point.
> The problem here is The Bat seems to ignore any message in an IMAP box which
> is marked "read". So I get an email at home, I won't see it when I get to
> work.
However, this is not how it works. TB! does, indeed, do IMAP incorrectly.
It uses it as a glorified POP. OTOH, how you are describing it is also
incorrect. IMAP is supposed to be remote access and administration of
mailboxes as if they were local. This means that the mail would show up, but
would show up as read. Any chances you made from one client would show up in
the other client.
> It's possible I have a setting set wrong somewhere, but I can't find
> it. Eudora seems to behave as I would expect IMAP to be, except
> Eudora is extremely slow and prone to crashing.
If Eudora is ignoring mail that is "read" then it, too, is failing to
implement IMAP correctly. Oddly enough, the only correct implementation of
IMAP I've seen are in Pine (from UWASH, creators of IMAP) and Outlook, from
Microsoft.
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