i know many people are still using POP3. Many people still use windows NT, or windows XP.
My question is (or should have been) WHY ? With online storage becoming more available (at zero cost) you could have easily kept your 1 GB worth of mails in the cloud. Tomorrow your hard disk crashes, or you need to access your mail from somewhere and you don't have your laptop / phone, what do you do ? Regards, -- Markus On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Stephen S. Musoke wrote: > Markus, > > Actually very many people including myself use POP3. Trying doing an IMAP > synchronization is 20K emails in your mailbox and one of the links in Uganda > (I just divorced my ISP of 10 years because of performance). > > IN my case, I have to keep a copy of each email that is sent to a client, > and I have been doing so since 2006, so I have ended up with a ~1GB Outlook > PST per year. > > POP3 has its issues, but it gets the work done > > Stephen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Markus A. Wipfler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:36 PM > To: [email protected]; Linux Users Group Uganda > Subject: Re: [LUG] dumb software: yahoo mail > > Nothing wrong with POP3. It works. IMAP has more features and am quite sure > it is supported by your mail user agent, so why not just use it? Oh wait > perhaps Yahoo doesn't provide free IMAP service? That is the only reason I > could think of why you would be popping instead of imapping. ;) > > > > > > Regards, > > -- > Markus > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Kizito Thomas wrote: > >> I do and it serves me the purpose! What is wrong with it!? >> It has advantages and disadvantages, but to me the advantages out-weigh >> the disadvantages! >> >> > ............................................................................ > .................................................................... >> Seat of Wisdom .............Pray for us >> Cause of our Joy ...........Pray for us >> .................................................. >> Kizito Thomas >> +256-712-929564 >> +256-782-062708 >> >> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:13 +0300, Markus A. Wipfler wrote: >>> Hmmm, at 1 point yahoo charged you for popping mails. I don't use yahoo > mail myself but I remember people complaining about an annual fee. I guess > they removed it when they realized how dumb that was (and also they saw > other players offering the service for free). >>> :) >>> >>> BTW who still uses POP3???? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Markus >>> >>> On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Timothy Kiwagama wrote: >>> >>>> Markus, >>>> I have pop3 access to my yahoo mail account and I have never been > charged a cent >>>> >>>> Timothy >>>> >>>> On 10/26/2010 8:07 PM, Markus A. Wipfler wrote: >>>>> More dumb(erer) is the fact that yahoo charges for basic services such > as mail forwarding or POP3 access. Not even Micro$oft does such nonsense. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Markus >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Mugarura Cavin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Lug, >>>>>> >>>>>> i now know why some companies collapse, >>>>>> yahoo used to be one of the biggest mail providers, and now, if it > collapses, i will not mourn, (i will open a bottle of sparkling water) >>>>>> >>>>>> they have this dumb feature, you are trying to send mail, to an > address, then the foolish yahoo mailer asks you to verify if you are a > person, they put in place some lousy captcha >>>>>> all in an effort of fighting unsolicited mail. Tell me something more > dumb, than what yahoo is doing, and i will stop supporting Liverpool > Football Club, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 'distressed yahoo user' >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> LUG mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>>>> >>>>>> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >>>>>> >>>>>> All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>>>> >>>>>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > (including attachments if any). 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