Subject: Re: What's All This IMAP Stuff About Anyway?

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 22:17:51 -0700

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, David L Miller wrote:
> 
> > On 10 Apr 1997, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> > 
> > > IMAP, (ooh! I might get this wrong, and I hate that! Internet Mail Access
> > > Protocol, I hope!),
> > 
> > IMAP used to stand for Internet Mail Access Protocol, but that has
> > been changed to Internet Message Access Protocol in the most recent
> > revisions, since it is quite capable of handling other sorts of
> > messages that just mail (e.g. news). 
> 
> Well, ok. At least I'm not way off. Now the question, then, is do news
> servers support IMAP?

Some do, but I don't think it is common yet.  I think some of the
newer servers are providing combined services...

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:22:12 -0700 (PDT)

Perhaps more to the point: there are some very popular IMAP servers (e.g.
UW's and CMU's) that can be configured to export news via IMAP.

-teg