Imap clients

[Darin Perusich]

we run netscape as our default email client in a mixed win2000, solaris
environment with about 70 users and squirrellmail as a web client. our
default is netscape 4.76 but we've slowly been moving users to netscape
7.0 which i've been testing for the last 6 months. we have many users
that are resistant to change so i like to make changes slowly. you 
should have seen it when we forced them to change from CDE to KDE, you 
would have thought the world was coming to an end.

netscape doesn't put a big load on the imap server (cyrus) also, unlike 
outlook that spawns a ton of persistant connections. it only spawns a 
process for the mailbox that is being accessed, unless you hit a mailbox 
with a ton of messages and try going to another mailbox before it's done 
grabbing the headers.

i agree with you observations on mozilla, i wouldn't deploy it to 
regular users. if they want to use it i wouldn't support it, i make one 
client that is the standard and don't provide support for others.

Justin Bennett wrote:
 > What are you guys running in an office environment for Imap mail (on
 > windows). Other than Outlook, I've used mozilla, but it changes alot
 > version to version so I don't know if it's suitable for widespread users
 > yet, because it's still being developed. Any recomendations, I need
 > something that can do HTML mail and all that good stuff. Free is
 > preferable but not a requirement.
 >
 > thanks
 > Justin
 >
 >
 >


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com