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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Marketing blocker collection, DEADLINE: 2013-03-10
From:       "O. Sinclair" <sinclair () orionweb ! info>
Date:       2013-05-08 4:44:14
Message-ID: 2654187.TJRLZYqSBp () sinclair-hp
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On Tuesday 07 May 2013 7:19 PM Jan Kundr=E1t wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:31:05 CEST, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > With IMAP and Exchange (not supported by Kmail) you have to understand
> > that
> > location matters. Where connection is expensive and erratic you
> > want your mail
> > ON YOUR DEVICE where you can deal with drafts offline. Filter rules are=
 on
> > your device and should be.
> =

> This is interesting. I'm not suggesting that Trojita will work well for y=
ou
> at this time, but I'm pretty sure that there is no reason for not using
> IMAP, actually. Using IMAP will bring you the following benefits:
> =

> - a primary copy will be stored on your server as well, so that when your
> house gets flooded or on fire, or when your PC gets stolen you won't lose
> your data, - you can set up your e-mail client to ignore all spam without
> ever having to fetch it over your expensive link, - you can access some of
> the data in the e-mail even before the big attachments are downloaded to
> your machine,
> =

> etc.
> =

> You are right that most IMAP e-mail clients are not particularly
> well-designed for offline modifications (like moving messages between
> folders); that is likely going to be a showstopper here. Perhaps Trojita
> will be able to do this in a few months.


You could be right on the "serverside backup" issue but the fact is that I =
am =

often restricted in how much I can pay for in that regard. =


Now we are about to switch to outlook.com (NOT my choice...) and will have =
25 =

Gb mailbox size so I guess from now on that is no longer an issue.

Will see how that works out - and I do "keep an eye" on Trojita ;-)

Kind regards,
Orjan Sinclair
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