[sclug] IMAP server

[Dickon Hood]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 15:01:26 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:12:17PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
: > Neil Haughton wrote:
: > >Reading up on all that, it seems that I will also have to set my MUA
: > >of the moment to leave mail on the IMAP server (so that when I change
: > >MUA it will all still be there). Is this correct?
: > Your MUA *will* leave the mail on the IMAP server (well, unless you
: > delete it, and maybe even then). This is where IMAP differs from POP3:
: > the former does not remove mail from the server, although it /may/
: > download a local copy which can be useful if you are on a laptop.

: That's not necessarily true.  It's true that IMAP is more often used
: this way than POP3 but POP3 has things like UIDL support which can help
: here and there's no real reason you can't leave mail in a pop box on the
: server.

: IMAP is however better suited for it as you can do folder manipulations
: and so on.

My main complaint about IMAP is that it's hideous; it's remarkably hard to
talk.  University of Washington.  Ick.  And I thoroughly endorse the
comments from others here about avoiding uw-imapd; I run Dovecot myself.

: I'm sure Dickon has probably abused both in some evil heinous way I've
: not even considered too :p

Funny you should mention that, but not *yet*.  Once I've got splodge
rebuilt (probably about this time next month) then I almost certainly will
:-)

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