E-mail Clients -Reply

Karl Fattig kfattig at polar.Bowdoin.EDU
Wed Jun 18 18:17:08 EDT 1997


You can of course install Eudora on a secured network drive -- to which
your account would provide access, and then you can download messages to
the network drive and access those mailboxes and messages anywhere you can
access the networked Eudora. 

Karl Fattig
Catalog Librarian/Webmaster
Bowdoin College Library
kfattig at polar.bowdoin.edu


At 02:44 PM 6/18/97 -0700, you wrote:

>> Many email clients, including Eudora, allow you to choose
>> whether to leave your mail on the server or to download it.  It
>> also has a number of MAPI specific options, in addition to
>> choosing whether to leave msgs on server, how long to leave
>> them there, etc, etc.  
>
>The nice advantage of IMAP, though, is that ALL of your mail folders are on
>the server, not just the INBOX.  I am up to about 97 individual mail
>folders for this fiscal year (thank goodness it is almost over) and through
>the IMAP protocol I can read any of them anywhere.  With POP3, you have
>access to just the INBOX mail (which for me is far too much just as it is
>without using it as a place to save mail...)
>



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