Conrad Rehill wrote:
> 
> 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).
>
> 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

The cyrus pkg is quite nice, I use it at home (2 users) and had used it
at work (it got replaced for political reasons) with some users each
have more than 100mb of mail folders.

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/

Regards,
         Karl