Re: Multiple connections, single mailbox
"Barry Leiba, Multimedia Messaging" <leiba@watson.ibm.com> Tue, 02 September 1997 13:25 UTC
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From: "Barry Leiba, Multimedia Messaging" <leiba@watson.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple connections, single mailbox
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On Tue, 02 Sep 97 08:00:59 -0400 John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net> wrote: > This is, I believe, roughly indistinguishable from the "multiple > connections to a single mailbox" case you outline. And, if it > isn't going to be permitted, we may have a problem... or at > least a bunch of error cases to work through rather carefully. Well, as I've said before (and as I say in the upcoming draft "IMAP Implementation Recommendations"), if this feature is important to you, you must be sure to pick a server configuration that supports it. If your existing mail system requires that you run, at least in part, a configuration that doesn't supprort this, then you must live with the limitations. There are always trade-offs when you want to support new facilities in an old setup. It's my opinion that as IMAP becomes more and more widespread, server configurations that do not support multiple concurrent clients accessing the same mailbox will fairly quickly become obsolete, necessary though they are at first (to support existing mail stores). Barry Leiba, Multimedia Messaging (leiba@watson.ibm.com) http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/leiba
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