IMAP debate [was Re: Blackberry-like device, MacOS X, and/or IMAP? ]

[Derek Martin]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0400, p.lussier at comcast.net wrote:
> The other nice thing about it is the database for user 
> authentication.  There's no need to add a system user account for 
> someone who just wants to get e-mail.  UW-IMAP is another UW student 
> project gone awry :)

This can be useful, but it can also be a pain.  In a lot of cases,
you're providing other services to those users too.  In such cases,
why maintain credentials in two places?  (There /are/ valid reasons,
but often the user will use the same username and password for
all their logins anyway, unless you force them not to, so it almost
doesn't matter...)

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Derek D. Martin
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