[imp] The PIMP

[Bill Tihen -- Information Technology]

Hello,

We do not allow a shell to our users and most have only the choice between POP
or IMAP if they have their own computer on their desk about 20 people
administrators out of a community of about 400 faculty, staff and students at
the school.  Therefore everyone else must use IMP.  Some administrators like it
because during the summer when the Swiss Govt. requires that most of our faculty
and Admins leave the country, they can still collect email without having to
take the office computer to some other part of the world (which we wouldn't
allow anyway).

Bill

Quoting Rich Lafferty <rich@horde.org>:
> 
> Well, Outlook and Netscape Mail are likely to be available to anyone
> that might be browsing graphically. :-) I think the only safe
> assumption along those lines are that people use webmail because they
> prefer it to other mailers. Having said that, though, I don't think it
> offers anything over Pine or Elm or mutt in a text-based environment.