RE: Mail Client

From: Challender, David (David.Challender@softwareag.co.uk)
Date: 12/07/01 

From: "Challender, David" <David.Challender@softwareag.co.uk>
To: Michael Kovacs <michael.kovacs@aon.at>, focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:51:50 +0100

You probably need to clarify requirements a bit.
When you say "a la Outlook" do you require IMAP & ability to use LDAP for
addressing (as is often the case when used with an exchange server), do you
need the calendar style functionality? or are you after a simple client?
Is it a stand alone mail client you want or a mail client that is integrated
into something else (e.g. a browser or "office" package?).
If we assume you want IMAP & LDAP then something like the Mozilla browser
does the job - and you get to check the sources if you're worried - I often
use this on Linux (its available on MS too) to access mail by IMAP & use
LDAP for address list access.
As for more secure ... just about any mail client as the majority of email
based viruses & exploits on MS are aimed at Outlook clients.

Regards

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kovacs [mailto:michael.kovacs@aon.at]
> Sent: Thu 06 December 2001 23:37
> To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Mail Client
>
>
> Hi,
> Hope you can help me. Any recommendations for Mail-Clients (a
> la Outlook,
> but more secure...) for MS platforms? I'll need something
> like that for a
> project in the near future (and I'd like to test it on my own
> before...)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
> CNA, 6xMCP, A+
> 'Never touch a running system',
> there's enough trouble with 'Murphy's Law'!
>

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