Re: [Evolution] POP or IMAP

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 08:28 +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> And awilliam@ is most certainly wrong that POP is inappropriate to use
> on an account shared with several devices. 

Errm, no.
POP was simply NOT made for being moved on several devices. Sure there
are hacks and workarounds out there (like "Leave messages on server"),
but IMAP was designed with this problem in mind at least (of course any
implementation could still do things wrong though).

> On the other side you have your email secure on the local server and
> when you lose access to your server account, move it or get hacked
> they are still there on your local PC. 

That's the same case for IMAP if you download messages for offline use.

> IMAP on the other side can be very fickle when several devices access
> the same mailbox. If you have not used it before - there are many new
> ways of losing email permanently. 

I can imagine problems (and sometimes face problems with IMAP in
Evolution myself), but I'd state the same about POP (which I have more
problems with in Evolution).

andre
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