Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-18 Thread Joost Kremers
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:18:01AM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:06:12AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> Not in some narrow sense, >>> but what is involved in 'being an imap user'? >> >> first, your mail serv

Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-18 Thread Ed Blackman
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:06:12AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Not in some narrow sense, but what is involved in 'being an imap user'? first, your mail server has to support it. then you simply set up your mail client to use imap.

Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-18 Thread Joost Kremers
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Another meta-question, where can I find a straight-forward description of > imap, without the enthusiastic pushing? What is it? it's just a protocol to access email on a remote server. that description would apply to pop3 as well. th

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Joost Kremers
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: > The main drawback, and the mainreason I don't use it directly is that > unless you run a local server with the low latency that gives you, > it's just too slow. 1 second to display an email is more noticeable > than you'd think befor

Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-18_21:01:38, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Hello, > > i have a "meta-question". > > imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. i wonder what > the benefit of imap generally is? > > if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many people in > agglomerations he

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:13:19PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > and IMAP makes it possible for me to sue my own client when I can. I'm so glad you're not my lawyer. festus -- I just want to break even. pgpVsQJIFrmZI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Deleting attachments

2009-03-18 Thread Ryan Corder
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:07:18AM +, J??rg Sommer wrote: | Why not use a macro that opens the attachment viewer and marks all | attachments for deletion and leaves the attachment viewer. True, this would be pretty easy. I'm looking more toward implementing a 'search for all attachments in t

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, March 18 at 09:01 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm: > imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. i > wonder what the benefit of imap generally is? The same as any network-accessible system: access. Here's a comparable que

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-18, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > i have a "meta-question". > > imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. > i wonder what the benefit of imap generally is? Compared to what? > if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many > people in agglomerations here

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Henrik Enberg [03-18-09 16:18]: > > Well, It's quite useful if you wish to access your mail on many > different computers and mobile devices. In fact, fast flatrate > connectivity probably increases the usefulness of something like IMAP. > > The main drawback, and the mainreason I don't use it

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Henrik Enberg
Jan-Herbert Damm writes: > if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many people in > agglomerations here in germany do) i can't think of the benefit of > managing my mails on a remote server. Well, It's quite useful if you wish to access your mail on many different computers and mobi

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Davis
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:01:38PM +0100, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Hello, > > i have a "meta-question". > > imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. i wonder what > the benefit of imap generally is? > > if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many people in >

what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-18 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello, i have a "meta-question". imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. i wonder what the benefit of imap generally is? if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many people in agglomerations here in germany do) i can't think of the benefit of managing my mail