Hi Everyone, On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:56 +0200, Alto wrote: > Hi Günter,
> > I'm looking for the best way to achieve the above, i.e. having the > > entire message base (something like 70,000 messages) available at both > > locations. > > Just use IMAP instead of POP. Keep in mind that TheBat's IMAP is quite > buggy at the moment though, so you might want to wait (and pay) for > the repairs promised (once again) for v4.1. > > One advantage of IMAP is that you can access the same storage from > anywhere, with any program. You could perfectly well use e.g. TheBat > at home and Outlook at work. I have set up my gmail account for IMAP recently, since I am now running both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 8.04. Ubuntu includes Evolution as the emailer, contact manager and scheduler, and it does well with IMAP. I have then installed Evolution for Windows to be able to access the same mail from Windows. I was going to use TB for IMAP (I have used it for Gmail's POP access) but have been reading in this newsgroup and TBBeta that TB may not yet still still be the best for IMAP, so I will continue to use it for POP sending (gmail allows that). FastMail.fm (an international provider of email service of various types) normally uses IMAP and has comments on the different mail programs. http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts/ExternalMail.htm#ExternalAccess They do say, unlike what I hear in our TB newsgroups, that TB has no reported issues with their IMAP. They also recommend Thunderbird pretty highly for IMAP, along with Mulberry and Pegasus (I haven't checked all of their program listings about IMAP clients). They report some issues with Outlook XP, in contrast. Since you have SO many messages, synchronizing them with your IMAP server may take a good while, I'd think. There are people on this list who know a great deal more about IMAP than I do. Bob Riley in New Mexico, USA ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
