It's worth noting that with the overwhelming number of MS users in the
world, that the Outlook client also supports the IMAP protocol.  There's
also no reason why you couldn't continue to use sendmail as your MTA
with the IMAP server running simultaneously to service requests from
your clients.

You may want to check out http://www.imap.org

-Conrad

Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > Here's the scoop; at work employees move around from computer to computer -
> > there are no personal workstations. When they want to check their e-mail,
> > the usually just use whatever computer they happen to be on.
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem if you run an IMAP server instead of using
> sendmail/fetchmail.  With IMAP, you manage mailboxes on the server.
> This puts more of a load on the server and network, but that's part of
> the price you pay for centralized services.  I think there are a couple
> of IMAP servers in the pkgsrc.  Recent versions of Netscape & IE support
> IMAP as do a number of other mail readers (not as many as POP, though).
> 
> -allen