XFOR: POP3 and IMAP4 Clients That Work with Exchange Server

Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
Article ID: Q169782

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0

SUMMARY

The following POP3 clients were tested against Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0:

   Microsoft MAPI POP provider (Win16/Win32)
   Internet Explorer (Win16/Win32)
   Eudora 2.0 / 3.0 (Win16/Win32/Macintosh)
   Netscape 2.0 / 3.0 (Win16/Win32/Macintosh)
   Pegasus (Freeware) (Win16/Win32)

Many other, lesser known, clients were tested against the Exchange Server beta release.

MORE INFORMATION

The Outlook Express Client can work as a POP3 client or as an IMAP client. You can select the type of the OE client during the setup process. OE is installed with Internet Explorer 4.0.

Internet Message Access Protocol, version 4 rev. 1 (IMAP4), has more features than the POP3 client. Among these extra features, are doing a directory search, having attachments, and using the server disk space. IMAP4 client was specified in RFC 2060, is taking over POP3 clients, and is also supported by Exchange Server 5.0 and above.

Both POP3 and IMAP clients are acting as separate protocol during the receiving process. During the sending process POP3 and IMAP clients are sending as SMTP clients.

Keywords          : XFOR kbusage
Version           : WinNT:5.0
Platform          : winnt
Issue type        : kbinfo
Solution Type     : Info_Provided

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Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
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