OT again... is there an IMAP expert in the house?

[Sheila King]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:24:15 -0600, "Chris Gonnerman"
<chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote in comp.lang.python in
article <mailman.1012224450.11377.python-list at python.org>:

> Urrr... it doesn't solve my problem.  Maybe IMAP isn't the solution either.

If IMAP were the solution, I would think that Mercury would solve your
problem. I suspect that IMAP isn't what you're looking for.

> The customer(s) I am trying valiantly to support want to be able to share
> a mailbox *concurrently*.  The Mercury and UW servers don't seem to work
> that way.  I haven't studied the protocol so I don't know if it is even 
> possible.

WHY do they want to be able to share a single mailbox? Maybe there is a
different solution that solves their requirements/needs.

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Sheila King
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> I have tried (with both servers) running two concurrent mail clients 
> (Netscape 4.75 and Outlook Express 5) connected via IMAP to the same
> mailbox, and deletions in one program are not reflected in the other
> even if I force synchronization; but stopping and restarting the clients
> causes changes to take place.
> 
> I may be back to a Pythonic solution...  wish I had time to write it.
> 
>