MS-Exchange interoperability (was: making vars in bash script...)

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:21:26 EST
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, at 11:57am, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

>> See the fetchmail FAQ wrt IMAP and Exchange servers.
>
>  Said FAQ says only that "Exchange 2000's POP3 support is so broken that
>it's unusable".  I presume ESR means "with Fetchmail", as Exchange's POP3
>certainly works fine with other mail clients.  Said FAQ also says that "IMAP
>is alleged to work OK".

Sorry, I had the protocols backwards :)  Upon review of my own 
.fetchmailrc file, I am, in fact, using fetchmail to retrieve mail 
from the Exchange server over *IMAP* not *POP3*.

It is the POP3 server which is horrendously broken not the IMAP server!

(funny, isn't POP3 a more simple protocol than IMAP?  You'd think 
they'd get the easy stuff right, and screw up on the more complex?)

>  Do you have any actual basis for your claims, Paul, or are you just
>spreading FUD?  :-) 

Yeah, personal experience trying to get fetchmail to work with an 
Exchange server.  My memory is just slightly dyslexic and I 
mis-remembered which protocol worked and which didn't.
Which is why I mentioned the Fetchmail FAQ.  I don't always trust my 
memory of details, but I usually trust my memory of where I learn 
things!

>Exchange is *far* from a perfect product, but making stuff
>up isn't helpful to anyone.

In all honesty, and in all the time you've known me, have you ever 
known me to "make stuff up"?  I resent the implication that I would 
ever do that.  I'm not always right, but I'll never intentionally 
spread mis-information regardless of how much I like or dis-like 
something or someone.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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