William, I believe that Sanford was trying to provide a solution within the debatable confines of sticking with POP3 as RMilner initially stated. I wholeheartedly agree with you when you wrote "deploy IMAP over POP" as I've tried to convey this idea over a couple of exchanges with RMilner on this Forum.
Moreover, asking that all his users to switch to The Bat! or some other more intelligent e-mail client seemed to him to be entirely out of reason -- not to mention that this would mean delegating security- or legally-related issues to technically-challenged users, as you know. As regards your last sentence -- which seems at odds with the previous one --, I already wrote that having this feature in IMail Server would be a good candidate for the wish list. But the crux of the "problem" lies not with IMail as I see it. It is rather that the dominant e-mail client does not make use of a readily available "verb" in SMTP transactions, at least not out of the box, and that fulfilling RMilner's goals means switching to IMAP4 is the best (only?) way to go, despite his insistence on using POP3 and Outlook. Putting the blame on the mail server is, I think, in error from a technical point of view. Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Lefkovics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 19:01 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail Rule for Attachment Size > That only partly solves the problem. An email client being able to > configure this feature is not an appropriate admin tool to perform this > simple task for groups of users. > > Sure Outlook is not the best POP or IMAP client. Both Outlook and IMail > suck for what RMilner wants to accomplish with POP. Whenever possible, > I would deploy IMAP over POP as well. > > It's not an unreasonable feature request for an email server to handle. > > William To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
