Re: nnimap and MS Outlook 98

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> The company has standardized on MS Exchange Server and MS Outlook 98 for all of
> our email / calendaring / scheduling needs.  I want to continue to use Gnus for
> my email which is why I am beta testing nnimap.  But will using nnimap for the
> email part of the things allow me to still have Outlook manage my calendar and
> schedule?  Or does nnimap slurp up everything such that I am going to have
> problems with the other parts of what we do with Outlook?

No. Nnimap is (should be) a "nice" IMAP citizen so you can switch
between any IMAP client you want. That's the point of IMAP. Use Gnus
at home, Outlook at work and Mozilla when visiting your local internet
coffee shop and Pine when... well, whereever. You could even use all
four concurrently if you like.

All read/tick/etc marks are stored on the server, so all clients
should see everything the same way.

[Gnus also stores these marks in .newsrc, but they are (should be)
updated from the server]

You might have problems if (when) Outlook/Mozilla's does things
wrong. It seems that Netscape trust it's locally stored information
more than the server in some cases, but I think this is a known
problems that is being worked on (I'm using 4.05 which is old).  It
shouldn't be a big problem anyway, merely cosmetics.

/S