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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail usability with IMAP
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-01 14:23:43
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On Thursday 01 August 2002 14:29, Unai Garro wrote:
>
> An average home user doesn't even know what message caching is. They just
> notice e-mails are not there when they disconnect the modem. And what they
> think is "this doesn't work". How can they run an imap server to do so? I
> don't think the idea of kmail is being only designed for the "average
> programmer".

For many users POP3 with all it's features (leave mail on server, delete mails 
from server, interval mail checking, etc.) is already way to complicated.

Therefore I doubt, that ever all users can really understand how IMAP works or 
is supposed to work. If caching of message bodies gets implemented and this 
is an option it just makes things again more complicated instead of more 
easy.

Besides that, don't you actually want to download your mails store them 
locally and delete them from the server when you have them on your local 
computer? This is not what caching is about but again something completely 
different. With caching you never have any messages locally that are not also 
on the server.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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