Le 11 sept. 2009 à 22:59, Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit :
Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης escreveu:
Hi
I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with
different time period settings
on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second.
The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete
on server all messages, so the second will not get anything at all
Correct?
IMHO, the 'leave messages on server' is a completly fucked up and
stupid way of trying to do something that IMAP4 does very well,
intelligently and RFC-based.
Well, POP is rather well RFC-based too... ;-)
In fact, POP and IMAP are both well-defined protocols; they just are
optimized for each extreme of possible behaviors: remove everything
from the server as soon as a local copy has been taken, or leave
everything on the server without taking any local copy.
Saying that one behavior is fucked up and the other a very clever one
perhaps tends to be a matter of faith.
If you need to use different MUAs to check the same account, you
really should consider using IMAP4. You'll have message flagging
stored on server (read messages, new messages, replied ones) ... you
can even configure your MUA to store sent messages on a IMAP4 folder
and see those sent messages from MUA1 when you access the mailbox on
MUA2 !!!
Faith again...
What if user 1 at MUA1 decides to delete some message today? Will user
2 on MUA2 still see that message when connecting 10 days later? Of
course, if user 1 and user 2 happen to be the same user, then that
user won't be surprised. But then neither would he have been surprised
if using two distinct POP clients.
But I'm sure digressing here... ;-)
Axel
