--On onsdag, juni 04, 2003 12:41:34 -0400 Dan Kolis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was said about IMAP versus POP mail:
Perhaps those folks should use an implementation that can manipulate mail
offline and then sync with the server later.
Dan says:
The group I know have an information technology
Sorry for the sidebar distraction, those uninterested in POP vs. IMAP
should hit D now...
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Tony Hain wrote:
Dave Crocker wrote:
The POP-IMAP example is excellent, since it really
demonstrates my point. IMAP is rather popular in some local
area network environments.
Lots of users don't like you have to be connected to IMAP to do routine
things fulltime.
If your paying by the minute for CDMA2000, (for instance), getting frozen
out of doing anything when your not connected turns people off.
Network people like the reduced traffic on the network for POP logins
Thus spake Dan Kolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lots of users don't like you have to be connected to IMAP to do
routine things fulltime.
If your paying by the minute for CDMA2000, (for instance), getting
frozen out of doing anything when your not connected turns people off.
Perhaps those folks should
Terry,
TG and I believe Dave's
TG assessment is only true for residential ISPs, not enterprises.)
As I suspect Terry knows I know, the differences between pop and imap
are fundamental. I was making no comment on the utility of imap vs. pop.
This is about end-user adoption statistics.
i should
It was said about IMAP versus POP mail:
Perhaps those folks should use an implementation that can manipulate mail
offline and then sync with the server later.
Dan says:
The group I know have an information technology group which raid and
confiscate anything they don't install. They terrorize
Terry writes:
In contrast, I suspect that most enterprises use either
Exchange/MAPI or an IMAP-based solution ...
Both solutions are extremely well suited to intracompany or
intraorganizational e-mail systems in relatively homogenous user
environments. I'd always recommend Microsoft Exchange
Michel writes:
In Enterprise networks using GroupWise or Notes
or Exchange, a good 80% to 100% of the clients are
using the client software that pairs with the
server software. So there is a GroupWise client,
a Notes client and there used to be an Exchange
client but now everyone uses
