>Sure it will in your situation...but when you have more than one client going >after the mailbox, they'll step on each other's work n vanilla Dovecot. And >in >this case there are at least 2 and as many as 4 or 5 mail clients all open at >the same time going after an mbox format inbox. We originally had some >Unpleasantness with the unsupported BB users where they left their BBs on at >home and came to work and found that they would delete stuff and that it would >then come back (their Macs were set to make deleted stuff disappear from the >list but not be expunged until they did that....and when the BB popped up from >its 5 minute nap and checked the mailbox, it would break the lock and >invalidate >the work). Those user now do an atomic delete with immediate expunge. And >their use was simple compared to the CFO's...would you believe one of his 3 >secretaries uses the Trash folder as a secondary storage area? <shudder> And >cannot be talked out of it?
A large part of the time she has Pegasus running on her desktop too and we've not seen any of these problems. I don't know of any IMAP apps to get for a BB but if you come across a good one, please post a note here. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
