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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:58:21AM -0500, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 03:31 am, Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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> > Even for local users, if you are running courier-imap, it's nice to have |
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> > local accounts connect to the IMAP server rather than the .maildir or |
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> > mailbox files, because this greatly reduces the probability of locking |
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> > related hastles. |
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> > I used to use mutt directly on a server that had courier-imap running, |
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> > and when Mozilla Thunderbird on my other workstation machine recieved |
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> > mail it reorganized based on filters, causing mutt to freak out that the |
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> > mailbox was being modified externally. Using mutt in imap mode made it |
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> > much more tolerant. |
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> doesn't this just duplicate all of your emails though? doesn't mutt download |
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> the messages and store them locally somewhere? I'm prety sure kmail and |
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> evolution and any other imap client do :) |
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POP stores messages locally. IMAP has the capability to store all messages |
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on the server, and most clients do this. This is one of the biggest |
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advantages of IMAP. |
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Myself, I use mutt locally on my server and I also use Evolution at work |
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and occaisionally MozillaThunderbird at home when I need to muck around |
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with lots of attachments. I store all my mail, send and received, in a |
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single, searchable mailbox. |
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| Dan Noe, freelance hacker |
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