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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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