On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Rob Tanner wrote:
> More as a precaution so we don't end up aquiring any such IMAP clients
> unaware of that rather serious limitation, which common IMAP clients
> can't work with shared folders? I have to say, your request surprizes
> me, because even Pine has a concept of additional inboxes which is how
> we configure Pine for shared mailboxes. But surprized or not, please
> share your knowledge of which clients are limited in that regard.
The O'Reilly book "Managing IMAP", page 54, lists 4 rather common clients
that do not support shared folders: StarMail 5.1, Outlook Express 5.0,
Netscape 4.61 (Netscape has some strange proprietary ACL stuff), Eudora 4.3
At our site Netscape 4.*, Outlook Express and also ExpressIT! are common,
only Netscape 4.* is able to view shared folders in a useful manner, we
need to support all clients.
A solution would be to switch to better clients. So far we have not found
anything really interesting: Mulberry is too complicated for non-technical
users, Eudora is not very good at LDAP etc. I would be quite interested in
a client that do both IMAP and LDAP well.
-psi
