[Mimedefang] Re: IMAP

[Scott Silva]

Jan-Pieter Cornet spake the following on 1/24/2007 2:04 AM:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:05:21PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:36 PM -0900 Matthew Schumacher 
>> <matt.s at aptalaska.net> wrote:
>>
>>> This doesn't work because most of the people using the mail system use
>>> POP3.  I would love for people to ditch pop3, but due to poor support
>>> for IMAP in "widely-used-but-marginal" (as David puts it) clients make
>>> IMAP pretty lame.
>> Mulberry recently went free, and will go open-source soon. (The author is 
> 
> That's not the point, I think. Thunderbird and Evolution are already
> open source, and free, and pretty decent IMAP email clients (but thanks
> for the hint, I like having different mail clients to test with).
> 
> Users actually need to _do_ something to switch to imap, and rethink
> the way they store and view email. And last I heard Eudora and
> Outlook Express still didn't support imap anyway...
> 
> Hell, if we could just teach users not to be stupid the entire spam
> problem would vanish overnight too...
> 
Outlook express does support IMAP, but it is very kludgy.
And after users are used to POP3, they get lost with the differences.
I just had a user that asked me why when he deleted and then purged mail, it
didn't go into the deleted folder. I had to tell him that the deleted folder
is a trash can, not a storage location, and wanted to tell him to look up
"purge" in the dictionary.
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