On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:56:19 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/16/20 3:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing > >> mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In fact I'd > >> do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People > >> say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some > >> people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them. > > > > Local email lets me read and respond while offline, such as on a train. > > And it is so much faster :-) > > Sure, but that is not something specific to POP3. Most IMAP clients can > do that as well. Agreed, and I did not want to imply otherwise. When I used IMAP long ago, it somehow did not keep mail on the server enough for fetchmail to recognize that I still wanted it downloaded on the other machine(s). That is why I gave up. Likely there was an error in my configuration. Thanks, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
