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]]> by: Marc Orchant http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1639 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:10:33 +0000 http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1639 Nice series Perry. One more thing about IMAP (and I've been working in that ebvironment for 6 years now) is that it makes the use of many Outlook add-ins and other tools that work with Outlook data impossible. ClearContext IMS Pro is a good example. So is NEO Pro. Neither can work on an IMAP account store, making them interesting but unusable to me. Both of these tools support Exchange because the .ost file format is well-documented and better supported by Microsoft than IMAP. Nice series Perry. One more thing about IMAP (and I’ve been working in that ebvironment for 6 years now) is that it makes the use of many Outlook add-ins and other tools that work with Outlook data impossible. ClearContext IMS Pro is a good example. So is NEO Pro. Neither can work on an IMAP account store, making them interesting but unusable to me. Both of these tools support Exchange because the .ost file format is well-documented and better supported by Microsoft than IMAP.

]]> by: Perry http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1623 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:16:42 +0000 http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1623 Yes, there is no question that IMAP is more widely supported. You can find all sorts of different email servers and clients that use it, while Microsoft's MAPI protocol are pretty much limited to Exchange and their own clients. I really wanted IMAP4 to be the answer! My email provider supported it as did my email client so I gave it a try and stuck with it for quite awhile. But its limitations soon made it very apparent that it just wasn't up to the task of handling my email. Of course, your experiences may be different as may be your requirements for email. I certainly wouldn't come down on anyone who uses IMAP and likes it, it just didn't work for me and I've found that the features you get from Exchange are well worth the price to pay for the monthly service. Most of the various hosting services out there are under US$10 a month, so the cost is pretty reasonable, in my opinion. Yes, there is no question that IMAP is more widely supported. You can find all sorts of different email servers and clients that use it, while Microsoft’s MAPI protocol are pretty much limited to Exchange and their own clients.

I really wanted IMAP4 to be the answer! My email provider supported it as did my email client so I gave it a try and stuck with it for quite awhile. But its limitations soon made it very apparent that it just wasn’t up to the task of handling my email. Of course, your experiences may be different as may be your requirements for email. I certainly wouldn’t come down on anyone who uses IMAP and likes it, it just didn’t work for me and I’ve found that the features you get from Exchange are well worth the price to pay for the monthly service. Most of the various hosting services out there are under US$10 a month, so the cost is pretty reasonable, in my opinion.

]]> by: Shane http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1622 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:34:43 +0000 http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1622 One advantage of IMAP4 though, is that it is more widely supported than exchange. I chose IMAP4 over exchange for it's openess. One advantage of IMAP4 though, is that it is more widely supported than exchange. I chose IMAP4 over exchange for it’s openess.

]]> by: John http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1618 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:47:57 +0000 http://www.ultranauts.com/umpc/p,275/#comment-1618 Nice post series, Perry! I enjoyed it! Nice post series, Perry! I enjoyed it!

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