On 2022-02-13 2:09 p.m., c. marlow wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:54:16 +0100
wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Moreover, using IMAP will make
you dependent of remote resource and you must be online, the use of
IMAP accounts generate much more network traffic, that's a problem to
me. I also experienced very slow or unreliable IMAP servers
(orange.fr, the worst one ever?) and when it's slow or not reliable,
having to push everything online (drafts, sent and their copy to Sent
emails, ..) is just a pain in the *ss.
About the network point you made:
I am on a satellite dish connection and we only get so much data a month
and then when we run out, we're lowered to 1 to 3 megs until our reset
day.
But, a lot of people on the internet has told me that IMAP doesn't use a
lot of data. I don't believe it though.
That's actually a good reason to use IMAP instead, as the normal
behaviour is to download the headers and not the bodies. You only
download the bodies on mails that you read, so unless you don't get any
spam or if you actually read every single message that you get, your
bandwidth usage will normally appreciably be lower with IMAP.
--
John Mellor
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