Re: [SLUG] Solicitation of opinions

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 18:41:30 EDT


On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:

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> The biggest problem is that NOBODY FREAKIN' SUPPORTS IMAP. I swear, I
> can only believe that email client developers only own ONE machine from
> which they do all their work, which must be some fancy-schmancy laptop
> they can take with them everywhere they go, so only supporting POP isn't
> a big deal. In a given week, I might use one of any of half a dozen
> different machines, so if my email can't be kept on my server and _any_
> client I'm using at the moment be able to read it from there (i.e. IMAP)
> the client, AFAIC, is utterly broken.
>

I don't really understand IMAP, but can't you use POP to drop your mail
onto a central server and then view it from your machine? And can't you
also save the mail to that server?

Paul



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