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Old 03-30-2009, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by bcoulter View Post
The reasons we use IMAP:
1) so that we don't duplicate storage on our network - once on the email server and once on the person's home drive.
Just about every IMAP client out there will keep a local cache of e-mail, as well as a local index of header information. It's virtually impossible to prevent this.

MS Outlook even has a nasty "bug" where you can still run into the ">2 GB pst file" when using only IMAP, as it stores messages and headers in the local .pst file.

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2) so that proprietary information is not accidentally downloaded to a local computer, they must consciously make that decision knowing it is against company policy.
See above.
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