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Re: Imap & Ldap
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Alex Dubrovsky wrote:
> Does anyone here use Imap / Ldap servers with win32 clients?
> Care to share the expirience? What type of server , etc....
>
> P.S. If the server also supports pop3 - it's even better.
> Cheers
i'm using an imap server (i think it's from washington university), and
connected to it using netscape's email on win NT 4.0 (with SP3). working
was rather ok, and it allowed to also read email offline without the need
to revert to using pop3. one annoying problem: the connection to the imap
server seems to be cached in a bad manner (this is netscape 4.5, maybe in
4.6 it is better) and thus the client had to re-authenticate with the
server almost every time i moved to a different folder, etc.
we also used a pop3 server (from qualcomm) on the same linux machine, and
users in the company use it all the time from win95 and win NT 4.0
machines. one note about this pop3 server - it has hard time handling
large mailboxes, since it first copies the entire inbox file (we use
sendmail as our mail agent, not qmail) between the user sending
authentication data and the server returning an 'ok' reply - this causes
time-outs with clients (at least i saw this behaviour quite a while back),
and makes mail delivery rather slow for such mail boxes - unless you have
a fast enough disk (so i won't recommend using an IDE disk for this - i
did the mistake of switching from SCSI to IDE, and noticed a rather large
slowdown of the whole system when the pop server gets to work on large
(10MB-20MB) mail boxes.
as for ldap - i haven't used it yet, so i cannot comment on this.
hope this helps,
guy
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