Brent Busby <br...@keycorner.org> writes: > d...@blackshard.net (Matthew R. Trower) writes: > >> My experience was that when using fetchmail (or getmail, or dtmail's >> builtin IMAP), you cannot leave messages on the server. If you do, they >> will be repeatedly fetched, causing much duplication. Local deletion >> also does not propagate back to the server. This is not how IMAP was >> intended to work; it is glorified POP. > > One feature of IMAP that goes a bit beyond just downloading your mail is > the ability to be connected from multiple clients, making changes to the > mailbox from more than one of them, and having it be dealt with > gracefully. It provides something like a database for mail, handling > activity the way a database server manages transactions. It's probably > a good thing IMAP can do this too, considering the number of people who > spend all day looking at their mail from their phones, three different > laptops, and a smart waffle iron with an LCD touchscreen, who would be > very hard to teach not to do things like that because of worries that it > might corrupt their mailbox.
Right; DtMail doesn't currently work that way. My guess is someone just slapped IMAP command language into a POP framework. I suppose I'll find out soon enough... -mrt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
