IMAP (was: replacement for netscrape mail)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 3:17pm, Ken.Coar at golux.com wrote:
>> In short, IMAP rocks.  How could you not like it?  ;-)
> 
> i thought this sort of discussion was reserved for editors, operating
> systems, and fascist regimes. 

  Ohhh, no.  Those are just the most popular topics.  We can (and do) have
holy wars over anything.  We recently had a minor skirmish over the proper
way to save multi-track songs in MP3/OGG files, for goodness sake!  ;-)

> seriously: i do a *tonne* of my mail offline; i need to have it local to
> my mua.

  IMAP has fairly nice provisions for offline synchronization.  POP, even
*with* hacks, is strictly one-way.  With IMAP, you can post changes made
while offline back to the server, such that your entire mail folder
collection is always kept in sync across multiple computers.  You apparently
currently do that by hand carrying a CD between computers.  If you really
like that better, well, go right ahead, but personally, I would rather have
the computer do it for me.  :-)

  (I will readily admit that comparatively few IMAP clients implement the
offline features.  Mozilla does.  MS Outlook Express does, too.)

  While I don't have gigabytes of saved mail, I do have a few hundred
megabytes, and I access it all using IMAP, so I'm not just blowing smoke.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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