On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:07 -0700, David Lang wrote: >> 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. > > The drive is not exactly local, it's on a separate server (which does > mainly mail and file server), which is accessed remotely or not, > depending on who uses it and when. I was responding to Greg, who was saying that all modern IMAP clients will copy the mail to the local drive so that they can work offline. David Lang >> 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'. > > I admit I have yet to find the ideal IMAP client, efficiency-wise. But > that's another problem. > > Xav > > > > ---- 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
