On Thursday, September 14, 2017 03:56:38 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:32:33PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > > My employer is forcing me to shut down my long-time Linux mail server. I > > have no choice in the matter. > > > > My employer uses Microsoft Exchange/Outlook for mail. They have an > > Outlook Web App (OWA) that I can access from Firefox, but as far as I > > can tell you cannot save a file to the local disk with OWA. That makes > > OWA pretty useless. The documentation, if it can be believed, says that > > I can access Outlook with POP3 and IMAP4 programs including Thunderbird. > > As others have said, IMAP is the best path (if the Exchannge server is > set up for it).
I'm sort of moving OT, but want to ask: presumably you think IMAP is preferable to POP3--what makes you say that (in general)? It's been a long time since i chose to use pop3 instead of imap--in fact, iirc, imap became an option later, and my decision was more whether to stick with pop3 or switch to imap. I prefer pop3 because it (in most cases, unless set otherwise or dealing with gmail) deletes the email from the email server, which is what I prefer. I presume imap gives you an option to delete mail from the server? I recognize that leaving email on the server can make it easier to access your email from multiple devices, but (1) I rarely have that need (maybe not in the last 10 years), and (2), when I do, I can set pop3 to leave email on the server (but, iirc, I typically set my "main" email device to delete it from the server--iirc, if I didn't, I'd keep getting the same emails sent to me over and over--but maybe I'm not remembering that correctly.
