Hill, Brett wrote: > Why would I use IMAP on my mobile phones when an OWA server is so much > more efficient (not to mention secure...SSL)?
Imap does support SSL, which is really not the preferred method to use encryption, that's TLS. Which imap supports too. At least if the imap server is worth its salt. I have yet to find imap inefficient. Owa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Web_Access) appears to be proprietary. I think proprietary protocols have no place almost anywhere, but especially not in email and related functionality. As is shown by this quote: "Some functions, such as Search, are not available in the Basic UI. Since there is no current IE installer available for Mac OS X and no official installer at all for Linux, Linux and many Apple users can only use restricted functionality." My opinion remains that you need to separate functionality as opposed to integrate them. The latter will create unnecessary bloat and complexity. Plus a dependency on one single service. Greetings, Jeroen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
