April 20, 2004 meeting minutes

Client/Server Email Evaluation - 2004

April 20, 2004 Meeting Minutes

1. We reviewed the test results and thus far we only have 10 out of 25 evaluations submitted. Please submit your results immediately at...

http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2004/csemail/testscript.html

if you need the Standards Lab for your testing it is available tomorrow from 1-5 (Thurs 4-22).

2. We discovered some inconsistencies in answers in the test results. Please look over the results thus far as we will discuss any inconsistencies at the next meeting. The results are at...

http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2004/csemail/test-results.html

3. Opera - the Web Browser team is evaluating Opera and thus we must evaluate it. We decided we would test Opera on the 2 most recent operating systems - Mac OS 10.3 which will be tested by Mark Sirota, and Windows XP which will be tested by Rob Marcolina.

4. Documentation - we then discussed how we would document our results and suggested that...

- We will document a recommended config and best practices for all products we recommend.
- We will add spam filtering to the recommended configs and best practice documents.
- We will use the documentation from last year's team and the supported products documentation as a template for ours.
- The supported products documentation for Apple Mail 1.2 is sufficient for our needs and that Steve J. will compile Apple Mail 1.3 on Mac OS 10.3 documentation.
- That Mark Sirota will provide documentation commenting on Mulberry.
- That Ben will provide documentation recommending IMAP instead of POP.
- That documentation for Mozilla will be sufficient for Netscape as well.
- We will add a separate page defining Spam Filtering linking to the recommended configs and best practices for each product.

To Do List

1. Please do any testing that is not yet completed immediately and submit your results.
2. Read over the test results and take note of any inconsistencies with the answers.
3. Email Peggy if you have any of your evaluation answers that need to be changed. Her email is yetter@isc.
4. Please read over the documentation from last year's team and our suggested changes. Be prepared to discuss your ideas regarding documentation at next week's meeting.
5. Please come to next week's meeting. Our attendances numbers have been very low lately.



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