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2002 E-Mail Evaluation Criteria
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The product evaluation focused on software that meets the following basic characteristics:
- Run on the University's recommended desktop standards for 2001-2002.
- Strong support for Internet standards: Authenticated SMTP, LDAP directory service, and especially IMAP.
- Note: This group is focusing primarily on evaluating IMAP clients vs. POP3 Clients based on ISC's recommendation, with the idea to eliminate POP protocol support within a specified time frame (to be determined by IT Roundtable). However, the group acknowledges transition recommendations will need to be outlined for those schools or centers heavily using POP3 clients and whose servers may not be ready to bear the additional disk space required for IMAP client use.
- IMAP vs. POP Discussion from www.imap.org.
- Leave LDAP support in criteria, but it can be weighted against the other criteria. We need to decide whether to make LDAP a requirement or not. This would obviously sway the direction of the Browser Evaluation Team recommendation. Most folks agreed that whatever Browser is chosen, end-users are going to automatically use the e-mail client that comes with it, so it would good to uncover any Messenger issues early.
- In particular for this effort is meeting the University AAA requirements for preventing clear text passwords from being sent over the network. Avoid requiring data stream encryption in this effort. Data encryption can be accomplished using PGP for sensitve content. The strategic direction of the University is towards a Kerberos single logon. With this in mind, Standards-based (GSSAPI) Kerberos support and/or TLS as an alternative solution where Kerberos isn't supported, will be given stronger weight, all other criteria and functionality being equal.
- Provides central storage of user e-mail messages with remote access to user's inbox.
- Support for a variety of attachment types such as MIME, UUENCODE and BINHEX.
- Provides central storage of user e-mail messages with remote access to user's inbox. The ability of the client to synchronize efficiently with the IMAP server.
- Palm OS interoperability
- Consideration of Unix/Linux clients.
- Support for the University of Washington's IMAP Server which uses the
Berkeley Mailbox format.
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