Re: [Evolution] From Evolution to Outlook

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev InTechnology co uk>]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:58, Luke Scharf wrote:
> I swore by imap (and imaps) for years -- until I became rich enough to
> afford a laptop.  Suddenly, it didn't make sense anymore because it's
> inconvenient to use it when I'm offline, and depending on which server
> you use, it can be slow for large mailboxes.  Now, it's POP all the way.

Interesting - I went the other way.   I treat laptops as ephemeral
machines (had one stolen from the office so far), so never put valuable
stuff only on the laptop itself.  Mail lives on a permanently located
machine with a good backup regime (the laptop also has a good - in fact
paranoid - backup regime), and I imap from there.   However I don't in
general spend time working away from connectivity so that works for me. 
If I did work away from the net I would probably use isync -
http://isync.sourceforge.net/ - and then make further decisions as to
whether to use the maildir directly or as a base for courier imap.

        Nigel.


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