On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> > An (unrelated) question -- any reason to use POP3 instead of IMAP4 > which is also supported by gmail? > Only personal quirks: a) I like POP3 better and find it more intuitive, and b) I prefer the notion of "retrieving" email (with the easy option to switch between keeping and deleting the original) to "synchronizing" email. [Stop reading here unless you think more details will interest you.] Item b) stems from personal history - I started using Gmail just like an SMTP server/gateway without any intention of actually using it as an "MUA". Nowadays, I sometimes do use Gmail over the web, but my main modus operandi still means staying away from the web interface (which I absolutely hate since it does not organize the information in any way I find useful - I said it was about personal quirks). And I do like the ability to delete emails on the server while keeping them on the client. I also have a much more flexible and powerful filtering/scoring/classification infrastructure on the client than what Google offers. IMAP would force me to use the same "folder/label" scheme with all its limitations. It would be even more awkward given that I effectively merge mail from more than one account into a single client (that has the capability of recognizing what headers/reply-to/signature/etc. to put into outgoing mails when replying/forwarding) - I suspect IMAPing folders from different accounts would make a mess, probably in a form of hierarchical structure with repeated and confusing folder names. [Yes, forwarding everything into one Gmail account and IMAPing that would solve that particular problem, and I do this at least for two accounts - but I still POP]. I will not be surprised if modern IMAP allowed me to do all I want the way I want, but I am quite sure this would be far from its default configuration. I do IMAP from my Android phone (Gmail does not support POP for mobile clients), but I could not find any Android email client that would suit my needs (Google's own Gmail client is as good - or as bad - as the web interface, and is OK in this sense, but it does not connect to my office email). If anyone knows [OT alert!] of something that is configurable like K9 but does not eat a battery in 20 minutes, let me know. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org <o...@goldshmidt.org>
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