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E-Mail Client Evaluation - 2002

Important Note: this web page is now slightly out of date. For more up-to-date information on Kerberos and PennKey, please see the PennKey web-site.

The 2002 e-mail team will evaluate and document e-mail solutions that satisfy Penn's critical host policy. This new team will build on the work of the team last spring, which identified Cyrusoft's Mulberry as a Kerberos-capable IMAP client that showed promise as a possible solution for Penn. The team will evaluate Mulberry 2.1.x's client interface and features to determine its suitability for deployment as a supported IMAP client at Penn. While this testing will focus on Mulberry alone, the interface and features provided by Penn's current supported products (Qualcomm Eudora 5.1 and Netscape Messenger 4.77) will serve as the benchmarks against which Mulberry is evaluated. Criteria and scripts developed by past IMAP/e-mail evaluation efforts will be used as a starting point for this effort to reduce the time needed in preparation for actual testing. In addition, the team will evaluate options for complying with the critical host policy using the e-mail clients Penn currently supports, and will make recommendations regarding future support of those clients on campus. Finally, the team will document recommended configurations for each of the proposed solutions and will write instructions to assist LSPs with migration from existing clients to new solutions, and from POP to IMAP, as appropriate based on the recommendations of the team.

As always, the team will be expected to refine the scope, define requirements and selection criteria, develop test scripts, do testing, and then make recommendations to IT Roundtable. The team will also maintain a web site to enable others to stay informed regarding their progress, and will create draft documentation for LSPs and end users as appropriate.

Evaluation

• Draft Evaluation Criteria
• Preliminary Matrix with Team Assignments
• Test Platforms
• Clients Tested
• Approved Test Script
• Test Form
• Mark Sirota's Draft IMAP vs. POP Statement

Results

• Mid-Eval Mulberry Report
• Security Protocol Summary Table
• Testing Results on E-mail Clients (short)
• Testing Results on E-mail Clients (long version)
• Final Recommendations to IT Roundtable

Documentation

• Draft configuration instructions
• POP to IMAP Migration Information for Eudora
• Mulberry configuration instructions (generic)
• Mulberry's Pros and Cons

Project Info

• Team members
• Draft Timeline
• Mailing list (email2002@isc.upenn.edu)
• Preparation: Kerberos Client downloads and configuration
  • Ticket Manager (Leash 32) for Windows
    • Configuration instructions for Ticket Manager for Windows
  • Kerberos for Macintosh
    • Configuration instructions for Kerberos for Macintosh
• Download Mulberry 2.1.2 for Windows, Mac OS 9, or Mac OS X
• Meets Wednesdays, 2 to 3:30pm, Bits & Pieces Room in Sansom West

Background Info

• IMAP vs. POP
• www.imap.org - Long list of IMAP clients
• E-Mail 2001 Mail Archive - PennNet ID and Password required
• 1999 EMTF Messenger Test Script
• 1998 EMTF Test Script
• www.imap.org
• Previous Email Evaluation Effort - 2001 E-mail Client Evaluation Team
• Operating System Guidelines
• Desktop Hardware Guidelines
• Charge to Supported Products Evaluation Teams
• Standards and Supported Products Process

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