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use an IMAP mail server in a true client/server network
manner, once you've connected to the IMAP server, you can
organise messages into folders on the server and you can view
messages and any attached files at the server before deciding
whether or not to download them to your local system. IMAP
allows the user to select individual message attachments to be
viewed and/or downloaded. You can delete files and messages
from the server, move or copy them to the local computer or
leave them for future retrieval. EMBLA Pro also supports the
standard
POP3 protocol. Both POP3 and IMAP2 run over
The IMAP
Unix daemons can support specific environments,
for example, Sun MailTool attachments. All flavours of Unix
are catered for with a suite of binary mail daemons, eg:
standards - RFC1590 (RFC1521), RFC1522, RFC1426, RFC1425,
RFC1176, RFC0822, RFC0821 and the draft update of RFC1176.
(1996-03-11)