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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mailody question
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-08 12:22:44
Message-ID: 200809081322.45518.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Monday 08 September 2008 13:05:57 Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 08 September 2008 11:40:56 you wrote:
> > > Just to expand (further :-)): there are mail providers (e.g. some ISPs,
> > > gmail, a lot of internal company servers) that allow you to choose
> > > between POP3 and IMAP, or force use of IMAP.
> >
> > No, not complicating it.  I wonder how common this is?  I haven't seen it
> > mentioned as available from most home-user ISPs - though I haven't done
> > any homework on this.  It's a good solution if it's available - I just
> > don't
>
> know
>
> > how many people would have that option.
>
> IME, quite a few ISP's offer the option to read your mail via IMAP,
> including my previous ISP (FastNet, now named something else (USLEC), and
> maybe even renamed again), my current ISP (RCN), and, iirc, my dad's ISP
> (Verizon).
>
> I always preferrred to download my mail to my machine and store what I
> wanted on my machine.
>
> IMAP does give you the advantage of being able to read mail from any
> location, without resorting to kludge's like the POP3 option to not delete
> your mail after downloading.  (IMAP keeps your mail on the IMAP server,
> unless of course, you delete it.)
>
> Gee, the more I write, the more I feel like I'm confusing the issue.
>
The funny thing is that I used imap years ago - it must have been CompuServe, 
I think.  I don't remember seeing it as an option when I was with tiscali.  
My current isp probably does have it, though, as it is fairly business 
oriented.  As it is, I just download everything to a dovecot server.

Anne

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