clients make limited test versions available on the Web for the
downloading. Many server owners will give serious client developers
guest accounts for testing. Contact them and ask. NEVER assume that
because your client works with one or two servers, or because your
server does fine with one or two clients, you will interoperate well
in general.
In particular, in addition to everything else, be sure to test
against the reference implementations: the PINE client, the
University of Washington server, and the Cyrus server.
See the following URLs on the web for more information here:
IMAP Products and Sources: http://www.imap.org/products.html
IMC MailConnect: http://www.imc.org/imc-mailconnect
4. Security Considerations
This document describes behaviour of clients and servers that use the
IMAP4 protocol, and as such, has the same security considerations as
described in [RFC-2060].
5. References
[RFC-2060] Crispin, M., "Internet Message Access Protocol - Version
4rev1", RFC2060, December 1996.
[RFC-2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC-2180] Gahrns, M., "IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice", RFC
2180, July 1997.
[UTF-8] Yergeau, F., " UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode
and ISO 10646", RFC2044, October 1996.
[UTF-7] Goldsmith, D. and M. Davis, "UTF-7, a Mail-Safe
Transformation Format of Unicode", RFC2152, May 1997.
[NAMESPACE] Gahrns, M. and C. Newman, "IMAP4 Namespace", Work in
Progress.
6. Author's Address
Barry Leiba
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone: 1-914-784-7941
EMail: leiba@watson.ibm.com
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