IMAP?

[Steve Marvin]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:05:10 +0200 (CDT), Peter Lindeman wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:48:18 -0700 (PDT), Paul Wiener wrote:
>
>>>What's the difference then between POP3 and IMAP ?
>>
>>As far as I'm concerned, the main advantage of IMAP over POP3 is
>>something I'll probably never use.
>>
>>IMAP lets you store your mail on the IMAP server's media. You can
>>create all your special mail folders and so on, and filter you messages
>>into them, and not use up any of your own disk space. Unfortunately, I
>>keep about 30 Mb of old e-mail, and my ISP, who does support IMAP,
>>would charge me a fortune for that much storage.
>
>Aha. Is this then the default protocol that Exchange Server uses ? At
>my work we have an Exchange server running (argh) and Outlook98 is
>horrible. PMMail98 can be used but only with SMTP/POP. It is very handy
>in a network to keep all mail on the server. 
>

Between Exchange Server and Exchange Client (or Outlook) RPC's are used
by default, although with ver 5.0 and later POP3 and IMAP are also
supported. Outlook is slow because it tries to be everything to
everyone, is bloated with obscure features, and has some rather large
memory leaks.