Hello Allie,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 at 09:38 you reply to Alto:
> On Friday, June 24, 2005, at 09:16 AM, Alto Speckhardt
> wrote:
>> Copying the cache files from my home machine onto the laptop via
>> "Windows Offline Folder".
> Interesting what you do there. Isn't the laptop connectable to the
> Internet? Why don't you connect to the server and do the
> synchronisation?
I choose to have my own IMAP server (Hamster) ...
>> I'm accustomed to "polling" since I started FidoNet. POP3 worked in
>> this mode as well, and I see no benefit from another mode. I do not
>> like to rely on an open connection, I want to have needed data locally
>> and just sync it on demand. I only use IMAP instead of POP3 because I
>> can have seperate folders there.
And nourish it from time to time through nearly 20 pop3 account and a
simple script. The server is at home on my 'big old BBS computer',
connected to an access point. My children have wireless towers with
IMAP clients, my wife and some friends, brothers ... a wireless laptop.
They use it at home or outside through vpn, I also manage for them
few mailing-lists (with less than 100 members each [friends, family,
business, ...]). As I am often on the road, I do the same with The Bat!
and IMAP.
> IMO, you shouldn't be using IMAP. IMAP is about relying on an open
> connection. The disconnect mode should be for exceptional
> circumstances and not a routine. Routine disconnect operations are
> best dealt with using POP3.
It work also even if you're mostly disconnected ;)
Hamster take more than 4Go (500000 .msg files) on the disk, TBbeta count
is : 53496 files.
--
Regards, Alain (ex 2:321/6)
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