Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Erik Bagfors <bagfors hpc2n umu se>]

> On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 09:31:28AM -0700, bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
> > no, an exchange server would be a bad idea... a calander or a address book
> > server (maby even a bookmark server) would be a good thing but reinventing
> > the wheel is a bad thing... imap/pop works just fine so there is no reason
> > to make the grave mistake microsoft made when they made exchange...
> 
> Maybe so, but why not also support an existing standard, if at all possible.
> Lots of large organisations and companies happen to use Exchange Server,
> and I'm afraid it will take a few more Melissa's before they switch.
> 

With "existing standard" I hope you mean imap/pop and the like.  If you mean Excange Server you are not talking about standards.  Just because ms wrote it doesn't make it a standard.  They usualy brake standards.

/Erik

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