Subject: Re: Distribution of Imap4 servers

From: Lloyd Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:43:00 +0000

David L Miller wrote:
 > 
 > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Boaz Kahana wrote:
 > 
 > > Ihave to convice the marketing department on the World usage of 
 > > Imap4 in order to use it in a new email client.
 > >  
 > > Is there any survay on world distribution of IMAP4 servers?
 > > I already know about
 > > http://www.imap.org/products/servers.html
 > > But it does not say anything about numbers ....
 > 
 > I don't have any real numbers on the number of servers out there, but
 > I do have a little information about one client, Pine.  We have
 > reports from about 200,000 users at 2000 sites who access their INBOX
 > on an IMAP server.

Complaining about what, exactly?

L.

is wondering if Pine plays as fast and loose with IMAP as it does
with the way it combines the news and email RFCs.

 > We also have reason to believe that those numbers
 > are considerably under-reported.  Does that help any?
 > 
 > --
 > David L. Miller <[email-masked]> | Whatever is begun in anger
ends in
 > Software Engineer, Pine Development Team | shame. -- Benjamin
Franklin
 > Box 354841, University of Washington     |
 > 4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA  |
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:47:48 -0800

> Complaining about what, exactly?

Actually, I didn't include any complaints in those numbers...

> with the way it combines the news and email RFCs.

Could you please elaborate?

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