Subject: re: IMAP vs POP clients

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 12:44:29 -0800 (PST)

The IMAP distribution in mail/imap.tar.Z on ftp.cac.washington.edu contains
freeware POP2 and POP3 servers.  These servers have one particular neat
feature in that they are also IMAP clients, so you can use a POP client with
an IMAP server through this software.

POP clients cannot talk directly to an IMAP server unless they have IMAP
support.  However, they can talk to the IMAP distribution POP server, and then
through that connect to an IMAP server.  This is done by logging in to POP as
imapserverhost:user instead of user, e.g.
	ShivaMS.CAC.Washington.EDU:mrc
to log into the IMAP server at ShivaMS.CAC.Washington.EDU as user mrc.

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Scheuerman)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 12:38:01 -0800 (PST)

According to the RFC1176, IMAP can be thought of as a superset of
POP.  Does that mean that a client that supports POP would be able to access
an IMAP server but not get all the functionality or does it mean that only
the functions are similar but the technicalities are different enough to
preclude the use of POP clients with IMAP servers?

The reason this comes up is that we are using QVT/Net to connect to our
server and QVT/Net supports POP3.  We like QVT, but IMAP support doesn't
look very close.

The other extension to the question is: are there POP servers that are
available in the public domain, and do they work well with Pine?

thanks for the help

Mike Scheuerman