On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:32:01 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 18 December 2015 09:49:59 Brian wrote: > > > > > > > Also, run 'fetchmail --version' for debugging info. > > > > The guts of my ~/.fetchmailrc are > > > > poll <POP3 server> > > proto pop3 > > user <Could be bob or b...@example.com> > > password <secret> > > ssl <May or may not be needed. Depends on the server> > > > > 'fetchmail -c -v' for testing. > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles, > lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit to > it? (For the avoidance of doubt, I use POP3.) > > I won't admit to being a muggle or a luser (who, me?), but I am often > prepared to admit to being a dinosaur. However, in this case I > actually don't agree with the premise. Feel free to tell me that I > am deluding myself and that I am indeed a dinosaur in this as well. > > I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does. > POP3 is exactly right to use email on one intermittently-powered workstation. It can be pushed beyond that, but only by the user manually duplicating what an IMAP system does by itself. Your choice, of course. I use POP3 (over ssl) to download official mail from my designated contact address at my ISP, for which purpose it is entirely adequate. I use various clients on various computers to access mail for my own domains, stored on my own server, for which POP3 is not at all suitable. -- Joe
