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List:       imap
Subject:    re: X.400 <==> IMAP/C-CLIENT
From:       Mark Crispin <MRC () CAC ! Washington ! EDU>
Date:       1995-09-08 18:28:26
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On Fri, 8 Sep 1995 07:24:52 -0500 (CDT), Mark J. Bailey [HOME] wrote:
> could some of you on these lists who are X.400 familiar give me some ideas
> on the components of the X.400 family that functionaly are similar to
> compenents inside IMAP and C-CLIENT?  Things like what X.400 has that is
> similar to the way IMAP accesses a mail server, etc.  I know the most
> obvious is that IMAP is TCP/IP (currently) and X.400 is OSI (more or less -
> at least you have to fake it somewhere).

I don't think there really is anything in OSI that is similar to IMAP.  The
closest is probably P7, but that is more like POP3 than IMAP.

c-client is just one particular implementation, and it doesn't really belong
in a discussion of the protocol.

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