Le jeudi, 9 jan 2003, � 23:20 Europe/Paris, Gordon Messmer a �crit :

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 06:38, J�r�me Bolliet wrote:
Roland Schneider wrote:
The problem has been already mentioned on this list, pop3d
cant be used for anything with more than a few mailboxes
and Sam recommends using imapd in such cases.
Maybe this makes it into a configure-time option some day,
but non-rfc-conformant hacks usually take some time.
Well.
But i don't want to give imap access to our customer.
I've heard providers say that before, but I've never understood why. If
IMAP works better than POP for your users' purposes, why would you not
want them to have access to that service?
Imap give some more features than pop3, one of them is "leaving messages on
mail server". That implies bigger quota than in pop3. On a pop3 server you can
have a big inbox at about 20Mb, but on imap this is small box...

For example, my work imap inbox + folders are about 1.5G, personnal is splited on
archive imap mailbox = 4G (about 5 years of emails) and current inbox (about 2G)....

Pop3 "allow" user to remove the mail from server, so for ISP the cost in storage
is less important than IMAP. Our customer pay for IMAP service, mostly because
it take more space than pop3...

/Xavier

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