17 Capabilities of Well-known mail clients (LAN Mail Protocols)
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This article is from the LAN Mail Protocols FAQ, by John Wobus jmwobus@syr.edu with numerous contributions by others.
17 Capabilities of Well-known mail clients (LAN Mail Protocols)
This section covers what I've been able to find out so far about the
well-known mail clients' ability to retrieve mail from a POP or IMAP
server.
Client POP3 IMAP MIME ------ ---- ---- ---- Apple PowerMail client ?. ?. ?. BeyondMail Professional 3.0 yes planned- yes CE QuickMail LAN client no no yes CE QuickMail Pro client yes planned yes Claris Emailer yes ? yes DaVinci eMAIL client yes* ? yes* Eudora yes yes| yes FirstClass ? ? ? Lotus cc:Mail Client R8 yes yes yes Lotus Notes mail client 4.0 yes planned_ yes Microsoft Mail client no no no Microsoft Exchange client yes+ no yes& Microsoft Outlook 97 yes no yes Microsoft Outlook 98# yes yes yes Netscape Navigator yes no yes Netscape Communicator= yes yes yes Novell Groupwise yes planned^ yes
Notes:
(.) Discontinued.
(-) IMAP4, target delivery: 4th quarter 1997.
(_) Lotus Notes mail client IMAP4 due 4th quarter 1997.
(*) DaVinci SMTP eMAIL: I'm not sure if this is different from
the normal DaVinci client.
(|) Eudora Pro 4.0 IMAP4.
(+) POP requires Internet Mail Client for Exhange, downloadable from
http://www.windows.microsoft.com or included in "Microsoft Plus".
Due to be integrated, 1st quarter 1997.
(&) qp/base64. Due to be integrated (IMAP4) 3rd quarter 1997.
(=) Due 2nd quarter, 1997.
(^) Due 3rd quarter 1997.
(#) In beta as of November 1997.
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