On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Alberto Garcia <agarcia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:32:43PM -0600, Mark wrote: > >> The bottom line is that IMAP is totally unnecessary and irrelevant. >> It's yet another case of a competing standard that only complicates >> the world and doesn't provide any real advantages. > > I frankly don't understand this... > > Going to the basics, last time I checked you could download all > your messages from an IMAP server just like you would do with a POP > server, but you also had the option to leave the messages in the > server (classified in different folders if you want to) in case > you want to keep all your mail there and read it from different > computers/devices. Which as far as I can tell is very convenient for > many people. > > So what's exactly the problem? You don't think that's an advantage for > anyone or is it just that it's not an advantage for you? > > -- > Alberto García González > http://people.igalia.com/berto/ ...all of which can just as easily be done with POP3. The problem is that there is NO advantage for IMAP. It's just another pointlessly competing standard. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
