Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[bob kehs ksd org]

I have been able to use pop3 with balsa off of the exchange server that is
at my work, so I sould think imap, once set up properly, would work as
well...

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ronald de Man wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:22:03AM -0700, bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
> > Exchange has the ability to export to both imap and pop. Lets not
> > implament mapi suport and just use open standards like imap and pop...
> > exchange will be useable if it is configured to be open and standard
> > 
> 
> I'm talking about corporate mailservers that have been set up to
> offer some twisted version of IMAP. Maybe Exchange can also export
> regular IMAP, but that's not of much help for the common employee.
> 
> Or am I missing something here...
> 
> I've been trying to find out why I couldn't get netscape to read my mail
> at work. Telnetting into port 143 and following a specification of the
> IMAP protocol I got stuck at the point where I had to authenticate
> myself.. the AUTHENTICATE command needs to specify a protocol, for
> example KERBEROS_V4, but I could find nothing that worked... so I suppose
> that's where netscape got stuck as well, and where Microsoft's 'extensions'
> came in.
> 
> I might be very wrong though, please correct me.
> 
> Ronald
>