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[JD Runyan]

On Wed, Oct ,  at 03:20:53PM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
> 
> > POP3, IMAP, and (I believe) Microsoft uses another proprietary protocol.
> 
> Microsoft uses "MAPI".
> 
MAPI is not a mail protocal it is Mail Application Programming
Interface, and you find a variant of it in your linux desktop
environments as well.  It is what allows you to send mail from apps that
have no mail functionality of thier own.  Usually by opening the message
window of your mail client.  GNome uses a default MAPI client of
Evolution.  It is simply a client side API for allowing apps to
communicate.  GNome and KDE are using variations on CORBA to achieve
this if I'm not mistaken.