Mail on samba shares

[Shane Jensen]

Outlook can store on a server, though it usually requires a registry
edit to change the file location.  Outlook runs real slow if the its
file is large > 200MB is on a server.  And Outlook does support IMAP.

shane
shane at sumus.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Dan Egli
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 8:57 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Mail on samba shares
> 
> 
> Outlook, 
> 
> Who knows.
> 
> 
> Outlook Express? It does, I know. I'm doing it here.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> > Diego Cimarosa wrote:
> > >
> > > It is possible configure Outlook to leave mail on server?
> > 
> > Better than any file-sharing setup for this is to use a protocol
> > developed for exactly this situation:  IMAP.
> > 
> > Actually, I don't know if Outlook even supports IMAP.
> > (If it doesn't, that's just sad.)  Change your mail client
> > from a POP client to an IMAP client and check /etc/inetd.conf
> > to see if imapd will be running (or just try it).
> > 
> > With IMAP, your incoming mailbox really is on the server,
> > and you can save to server-based folders.  Pine and elm will
> > play nice with the IMAP setup too, so that you have telnet
> > access to saved mail still.
> > 
> > It's _so_ much better than POP.
> > 
> >         - Kevin Colby
> >           kevinc at grainsystems.com
> > 
>