On Jun 15, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Fluxstringer wrote:
So noted.
I read up on IMAP and POP
I guess IMAP would or might be good for high pressure, tightly
wound, highly paid,professional world traveler types I like my
email downloaded to me rather than clogging a server somewhere and
subject to god knows what.
Yeah, subject to things like 'routine backups' and proper
maintenance, etc. Only a POP user would think of it as 'clogging a
server' with email. That's because most ISPs are cheap bas*ards
trying to get away with the least they can do.
The UA's main e-mail system is imap based, and that's serving some
30-40K accounts. Our mail server handles some 600 accounts, and ALL
our mail resides on a 140G raid. Right now /home is taking up 131G of
that (which is 99% mail, since we don't have shell accounts except
for the admins on this machine), but we're moving to a new mail
server RSN.
Anyone with more than one computer would be well served by using
imap. You don't need to be a high-pressure tightly wound world
traveler type. I'm not all THAT high pressure, and my traveling is
mainly the 3 1/2 miles between work and home.
Don't diss that which you don't know!
Anyone I've ever met who got to use an imap server for a little while
really likes it. It's sort of like Windows versus the mac. Most
people have never used a Mac so they think it's 'just like Windows
only a little different', when in reality it's a world of difference.
None of that 'oh sh*t! my HDD just crashed, there goes all my e-mail!'
I have four computers I use on a routine basis. Only imap lets me
access ALL my e-mail from any of them any time I want.
--
Bruce Johnson
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