IMAP and Exchange Comparison

Address

username@mit.edu

username@mit.edu

Web Email

WebMail

Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Calendaring

Stand Alone
MIT TechTime™

Fully Integrated
Exchange Calendaring

Recommended Mac Program

Apple Mail

Entourage 2008 or
Apple Mail Pending Apple's release and IS&T support of OS X 10.6

Recommended Windows Program

Outlook

Outlook

Spam Filtering

Spam Quarantine for IMAP

Spam Quarantine for Exchange

Vacation Away Messages

Auto-Responder

Out of Office Assistant

Recover Deleted Mail

No

With OWA Premium and Outlook 2007

Email Kept on the Mail Server

Yes

Yes

Rules/Filters

Client side

Client and Server side

Quota Checking

On the Web

Available within most supported email programs