Hello Steve, on Sunday, July 27, 2003, 5:30:54 PM, Steve M. Sawczyn wrote:
> Imap must be difficult to implement -- the Depart of Education within > the state of Maine uses an Email server/client called First Class and > Imap functionality there doesn't work well either. I had asked the > developers about this and they claimbed that there are inconsistancies > within the Imap protocol therefore making it difficult to implement. > I found this a bit hard to believe, but in truth, most mail clients > seemed to have gone through a difficult time when attempting to > incorporate Imap functionality. Well, it can be that there are some things that are not defined clearly. However there exist enough very well working IMAP clients that are even freeware / OpenSource. One of the well working IMAP client is KMail and the other is Mozilla-Mail. IMAP is a standard protocoll where maybe some details are not defined so precisely. But at least the standard unix IMAP servers should be supported by The Bat. I guess that these are the one that are mostly in usage. I also know that e.g. Exchange 2000 is not answering everything correctly when you access by IMAP. E.g. IMAPassassin (a spam filter who finds spam on the server and can move the messages in a specicif folder) can't move the mail to a specific folder when using Exchange 2000. It copies it in that folder but is unable to delete the mail. So you have a as read marked mail still in the inbox... This could be one of the situations where the IMAp protocoll is misused (by Microsoft). > I also want to comment that the problem is not specific to GMX -- I'm > running a Linux mail server here with Imap access and am getting > the same results as the original poster. Guess we'll just havg on for > version 2. Yes, and it is quite near. The Developers already use Version 2.0 alpha 1 in their latest mails... :) -- Best regards, Martin Using The Bat 1.63 Beta/11 on Windows 2000 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
