Re: Balsa Development Plans

[glennm mediaone net]

On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:13:22AM -0600, Brady Hegberg wrote:
 
> My ISP has indicated that it will not support IMAP4 in the foreseeable
> future.  Perhaps I need to switch ISPs, but other than this they have been
> very good for me.
> 
> What I do is read my email throughout the day on a couple of different 
> machines.  Then at the end of the day I download all my email to my 
> main machine and archive the messages I want to keep deleting it 
> from the server at that time.  With Balsa if I re-download my 
> messages I either end up having to delete some messages everytime I
> check my mail or I end up with some messages multiple times.

That's exactly (one of) the benefits of IMAP.  You might try to find an
alternate mail source, if you don't want to change ISPs; read mail through
them, and forward your ISP mail to that.  (I don't do this, so I can't
recommend any good mail providers.  Sorry. :)

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 - Glenn