--On 27 January 2010 15:01:24 +0000 Jared Earle <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> wrote:
just adding to the list of people for whom a pop plugin would be
desirable. I'm not among them. We only permit use of POP3 here for
people who have to use clients that don't support IMAP. We have two such
people: one is blind, and has an braille computer that doesn't have an
IMAP client. The other is using a marketing mail tool that doesn't
support IMAP (but is otherwise quite good).
I doubt Letters would run on the Braille computer, either. As for the
marketing tool, what about getting Gmail to fetch the POP mail for you and
connecting to Gmail over IMAP?
Or, get Mailsmith for POP. http://www.mailsmith.org/
Hey, I'm not thinking Letters is ever going to replace either of those
applications. I'm saying that of 17,000 users precisely two require POP3,
and that's because they have requirements that Letters probably won't
replace.
The marketing tool doesn't have IMAP support. The mail it requires to
access (to handle rejections) is already in an IMAP accessible account, we
had to enable POP on that account. And, no a mailing list won't work for
this tool - traditional lists are not selective enough.
--
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
01273-873148 x3148
For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/
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