On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 08:01, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris:
>> And what are some pros and cons switching to IMAP?
>>
>> And what program do you use on Fedora for your email?
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I use fetchmail to download mail from every other mail server
> onto my home machine, where fetchmail then injects the mail
> into the dovecot imap server. With dovecot sieve support,
> I filter the mail into appropriate IMAP folders (or simply
> discard it). Then I can use any email client to talk to
> my local IMAP server without having to convert or transfer
> mail anywhere.
>
I do the same thing, excepting that I use Evolution as my mail client.
But since the mail is on a server, not in my mail client, I can try out
alternative clients and not lose any mail. Thus far, Evolution is the
least-worst one I've found on Linux.
I have a small LAN, and it's handy to be able to do mail on any
computer, and having it all in one server helps with that. I don't
really need to do mail away from my LAN. If I did, I could make my
mail server publicly accessible, but I'd rather not deal with that
security nightmare. The alternative would be to use an external mail
service that dragged in all mail from other addresses to it. Plenty
offer that feature, or used to (it's years since I looked).
Mail in IMAP has various advantages that POP3 doesn't have.
You can look at the headers of all available messages, and only fetch
the ones your interested in (by name, subject, etc). You can filter
based on headers (and that's quicker than taking the whole message in
and filtering).
IMAP can use folders (aka multiple mailboxes) on the server. I haven't used
POP since IMAP2bis arrived in pine -- maybe modern POP3 supports folders.
My pre-retirement work often involved sorting out issues on random workstations
(back when people had actual offices scattered over a couple floors/buildings)
so it was important to have quick access to email via IMAP from whatever workstation
was having issues.
A standard way of marking messages as read/unread, etc.
Here, read what someone else has said, instead of me going through them
all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol
George N. White III
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