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

Chris Gonnerman chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
Mon Jan 28 08:24:15 EST 2002


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

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.

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.






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