You made it very successful. We had close to 380 customers visit the 32 projects on display. The evaluations were overwhelmingly positive and the results of those evaluations will be posted on the web at the State of IT web site at. The result will be a unified mail service based on open systems protocols.
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The team is current evaluating commercial mail solutions. The IMAP protocol enables users to store messages on the mail server and manage them from multiple locations. Unlike POP, IMAP downloads messages in parts. This greatly improves dialup performance. Finally, attachments are downloaded only when requested.