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

[Eduardo Chappa]

*** Chris Gonnerman (chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net) wrote in...:

:) 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.

This is not a problem about the protocol you are using to read your
folder. IMAP is the way that you communicate to the server. The way that
the mail is stored in the server is the relevant point here. For example,
the default for the UW server is unix, and unix (format) does not allow
concurrent access to a mailbox. If you use the UW server, and you use mbx
format, then you can have concurrent access to your folders. Convert your
folders to mbx format and you'll be done.

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/