On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 13:52 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/31/2011 01:44 PM, Craig White wrote: > > POP3 for a typical mail client is for people who are mired in the 1990's > > and thus slavishly move mail from computer to computer, program to > > program, either out of ignorance for a better way or just lack > > imagination. But if you never change computers, never change e-mail > > programs, never want to use another computer or device to check e-mail, > > then sure, POP3. > > So, let me get this straight. By your standards, I'm insane and mired > in the past simply because I prefer having all of my email on my own > computer, rather than leaving it on some server out in the cloud. I > think it's better that I keep my comments on that to myself in this case. ---- I said it was insane to believe that he preferred to use POP3 - you could have easily discovered that information by checking the web page he linked.
If you want to mire your e-mail to the local store of the mail client and computer of the moment that's surely your business and I wish you luck with that. You would probably be better served by using Gmail but the choice is yours and you can change at any time. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
