Client/Server Email Evaluation - 2004
The Products vs. Our Criteria (how each one stacked up)
Questions based off our criteria:
| 1.
Does the client explicitly support Authenticated SMTP? |
| 2.
Does the client support "Authenticated" IMAP/POP (SSL/TLS and/or
Kerberos/GSSAPI)? |
| 3. Does the client support LDAP (simple or authenticated)? |
| 4. Does the client have a built-in, trainable spam filtering tool/option? |
| Product: |
Auth SMTP? |
Auth IMAP/POP? |
LDAP? |
Spam Filtering? |
Apple Mail 1.2 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Apple Mail 1.3 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Entourage |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
| Eudora 6.1 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Mozilla 1.6 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Netscape 7.1 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Opera 7.5 RC3 (Mac) |
Y |
Y |
N |
Y |
| Opera 7.23 (PC) |
Y |
Y |
N |
Y |
| Outlook 2003 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Outlook XP |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
| Outlook Express |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
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