On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:11 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/01/2012 06:39 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > In case someone new to mail comes along, > > and believes he is primitive for using > > this method over that. > > Well....my memory may be clouded a bit due to over celebration.... > > But I think the latest RFC for POP3 was published in May of 1996 (RFC > 1939) and the latest RFC for IMAP4 was published in December of 1996 > (RFC 2060). > > So, if one feels a standard from 1996 is primitive they both qualify. :-) ---- Not that the publishing date actually has anything to do with the worthiness of a workflow but... IMAP4rev1 was published March 2003 and it contained many substantial improvements to the earlier IMAP specifications (IMAP versions 2 & 3) and which I know is supported by cyrus-imapd and assume to be supported by dovecot (I don't use dovecot). IMAP servers typically offer server based rule filtering, folder subscriptions, flags to indicate which e-mail has already been acted upon (seen/reply/forwarded) and many actually provide pre-indexing for rapid searches - all of which should be obvious to any new 'client' connecting for the very first time. POP3 is what it is - a retrieval of e-mail from a server where it becomes the end client/user responsibility to store, manage, migrate etc. Anyone who has more than 1 computer or more than 1 device accessing e-mail from that account on the server, or simply gets a new computer should easily be able to understand the limitations of POP3. For those unwilling or unable to run their own IMAP server (understandable), you can get an IMAP account from Google (Gmail) which currently allows 7.5GB of e-mail storage for free. You can access that e-mail from any computer or device capable of connecting to the Internet and using a standard mail client such as Tunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple Mail, Evolution or whatever. You can access that e-mail with a standard web browser. You are also then relieved of the burden of storage and migration of your e-mail. You still get all the benefits of IMAP. Some people don't want their e-mail stored by others - certainly an option. They are then responsible for all of the storage, migration, client setup, filtering rules, some e-mails on this computer, some on another, some on their telephone. If they use POP3 on their telephone, they are likely to NOT delete the e-mail upon retrieval so they will undoubtedly read each e-mail at least twice. That's so 1990's ;-) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
