On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Given the profound advantages of IMAP, especially the management of folders > on one server, and the historical fact that *every single POP3 client* > defaults to deleting the email off the server, I have to ask: why are you > spending any time on such a server? > > I've done a lot of integration work with SMTP servers and client access, and > have to wonder why you're doing this with so many stable servers available. You may find the "advantages" of IMAP "profound" but I personally find the IMAP protocol incredibly ugly, and I think that mail clients have suffered because of it. That said, if you want to be able to access/manipulate multiple folders on the server then IMAP is currently the only game in town. If all you want to do is pull the latest messages from the server down to the client then POP3 is much simpler and understandable. Having a POP3 server written in your scripting language of choice makes it much easier to configure/customize/understand. -- Jeff Ollie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
