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.
Well now that Earthlink gives us 100 MB for an inbox and storage the
need to constantly pick out the expendable old email is a lot less
pressing. and a less frequent chore. It used to be a 10 MB limit . If
the ISP deleted the email you would have no choice of which got lost
anyway.
I also prefer to keep the attachments of family pictures and other
documents with the mail on my own drive. There are several advantages
to that.
If my own drive gets clogged or gives signs of failure I burn a CD.
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.
I suspect that the KSU server is IMAP also. I will find out for
sure. Earthlink told me theirs is POP only. and courteously sent an
email explaining
aspects of IMAP of which i was not aware. Strange if they only offer
POP accounts.
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!
I don't think I was disrespectful of IMAP in my statements. Merely
pointing out that not everyone needs anything more than Eudora Lite..
I don't remember the original poster saying he needed IMAP ability.
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.
Does an IMAP account store user info on the server which coincides
with the email client used?
My KSU account also has shared calenders and groups. But the mail
client is online from iPlanet.
Just trying to understand Bruce.
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