Re: Servers as appliances

[Chris Schwan <ainsoph@propaganda-arts.org>]

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Speaking of IMAP, is it possible to sync a MySQL database and a IMAP database?


At 06:20 PM 5/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Little plug for Cyrus IMAP... if possible I'd go IMAP. The IMAP protocol
>is flexible enough so that an IMAP server can also talk POP with POP email
>clients should the need arise. So a user can decide to use IMAP or if
>their favorite email client is POP only, they can use it instead. Also one
>of the complaints against IMAP is it's "insecurity", which isn't due to a
>problem with the protocol but the server software. Univ. of Washington's
>IMAP server is less secure than Cyrus's IMAP server and is not as
>flexible. Most of the complaints about security of IMAP are better
>directed at Univ. Wash's IMAP server.
>
>--
>Michael Hamblin            http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/
>michaelh@utdallas.edu      http://www.ductape.net/
>UTD Linux User Group       Engineering and Computer Science Support x2997

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