>> 2. Users sometimes try to use IMAP as they use POP. It is completely
>> wrong and it gives bad results.
> Right. However, I've been using IMAP for over a year now and I assure
> you that I no longer use it as I use POP. I still have issues with it.
> Even if all that it can do now works as it should without glitches
> etc., I'd still not be happy because of the POP legacy very slowly
> being relinquished.
For the majority of people who get a few legitimate messages a week,
which they delete after reading/responding, for those who are are just
barely able to figure out how to turn a computer on, pop will remain
the choice of most isps, I suspect.
>> 3. Personally I couldn't reproduce most of the bugs reported. As a
>> programmer you should know how it is to deduce the reason in the air.
> I don't know the nature of your test environment, but perhaps the
> problem starts there.
A professional grade beta testing operation is a large overhead. Maybe
that is why RIT relies so heavily on us.
> Mulberry and ThunderBird present themselves in a simpler way. The
> out of the box behaviour just works and they will not do some of the
> things TB! will. They don't need to. A low bandwidth connection
> cannot handle some of those off-line use type options, and yet a
> high bandwidth connection doesn't need them though they can handle
> them.
I find setting synchronize to "headers only" helps with large folders.
Getting a new list of folder contents is pleasantly fast. Some other
email clients don't have this figured out nearly so well. Eudora, for
instance, can take a half hour for the same operation over my high
speed connection. Having TB default to downloading my 15,000 full
message contents, many with large attachments would make a very
poor impression if I were installing it for the first time. Pop is for
those who are confused by options and would really rather they went
away. IMAP is for those of us who need a lot more from email software
and are willing to put in the time it takes to configure it correctly.
Of course it is true, that those for whom pop is right probably don't know
that and sometimes do wander into imap land unawares. You have to know
who your customers are, and how much you should cater to the low end
of the spectrum at the expense of the high end. Everybody is not going to be
pleased no matter where you draw your lines.
--
Gleason
Using The Bat! v3.5 Return RC5 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600
Service Pack 2 Primarily using the Fastmail
IMAP server which uses Cyrus.
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