On May 7, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Curtis inscribed:
Subject: Re: PowerMail and IMAP
From: "Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:02:21 -0500
On Mon, 7 May 2007 09:34:21 -0400, Sean McBride wrote:
with highspeed internet connections IMAP becomes more and more
popular.
So I think it would be nice, if these limitations within the IMAP-
implementation of PM would be removed in the near future.
I agree. IMAP is much beter than POP, and I'd like to switch, but
for
now PowerMail is holding me back.
Webmail has made serious inroads into the popularity of IMAP. Webmail
offers portability of email across machines, and with adequate
functionality to please the majority of users interested in such
portability.
While webmail has come a long, long way - I would argue that the
"majority of users" that is pleases aren't the same ones who use
PowerMail. From a business perspective - they often still see using
multiple machines to access email [via any protocol] as a bit
insecure. I am afraid that having amazing POP3 support at the expense
of mediocre IMAP support will cause more harm than good. In the long
run it is something that will likely be seen as a black mark against
an otherwise great application.
I've used PowerMail for years, but like Wayne B. I've given the nod
to Mail for now for it's IMAP support. The trade off is I'm more
inclined to pare down the total size of messages to try and keep it
lean. In PM it was nice [in fact exceedingly beneficial] to be able
to reference 2-3 year old emails conversations about an ongoing
project without losing speed or functionality. Using Mail I try to
extract the relevant bits to other documents and rely on searching
for them [DEVONThink].
Fin Kename
