making vars in bash script accessible from shell

[Randy Edwards]

>>I found out that they're supporting POP3 for the moment but that
>>this is expected to go away.  They mentioned a protocol called
>>MAPI will be introduced. 
> MAPI is Microsoft's proprietary mail protocol IIRC.  I believe it 
> stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface;

    I've also read that the handwriting is on the wall for MAPI too -- it'll 
be disappearing and OutLook XP already uses a new proprietary mail protocol by 
default.  Double-check this as I'm not a Microsoft expert, but I recall 
reading that a while ago.

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