On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client >> >> I possibly missed it, but I didn't see anything that said that fetchmail was >> grabbing things via IMAP. > > Yup, I think you missed it. > >> if you have intermittent/expensive-per-min internet connectivity doing something >> like this has value. > > Nope, not really. All modern useful IMAP clients can work offline too. > > All another IMAP server is doing is adding to the complexity _and_ > decreasing, i.e. lowering, the robustness of the overall solution. > >> another reason to run your own server is just to be free from quotas. many ISPs >> have small mail quotas. > > All modern useful IMAP clients can also store message locally -- moving > them from server to server, or server to local (or back), is as simple > as selecting and saving/dragging messages between folders. in my mind, having the IMAP client copy all messages to the local drive goes a long way to defeating the benifits of using IMAP in the first place. what do you consider a 'modern IMAP client' that is actually reasonably efficiant to use? there are a lot of 'IMAP clients' out there that treat IMAP as if it was POP (downloading everything and then working on it locally, taking _no_ advantage of the server capabilities) I am interested in finding such a client because at the moment I am using pine and mulberry, both of which are very good at using the server, but not exactly 'modern'. David Lang ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
