On 2/4/01 12:51 PM, M. Tamer Ozsu said:
> I am afraid I don't see the point about "depending on someone else's
> server". I suspect that you rely on that server to read your email in the
> first place.
I'm probably not seeing how to do things the IMAP way. For one thing, I'm
probably thinking too much "all or nothing" in terms of where my email is
stored.
All I meant by my comment about my university's server is that I'm not sure
I want critical email stored on the university server, where I have to rely
on them for searching through old messages, etc. Sure, I do rely on them to
retrieve my mail, and actually the times when the server goes down is rare.
And now that I think about it, I'd probably copy critical messages to my
Entourage DB anyway.
> The advantage of IMAP is that your email messages stay on a
> server that is usually a departmental server that is backed up regularly by
> someone.
Well, actually not in my case. It's a university-wide server. Probably is
backed up, though.
I hadn't thought about what William mentioned concerning keeping Sent
messages in an IMAP folder. That's a good advantage to IMAP, seems to me.
One thing I see in Entourage IMAP is the "live sync" feature. I'm not sure
what all that gets me except (it seems) immediate notification when mail
arrives (so I can do away with schedules that check every 15 minutes or so).
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've set up an IMAP account, started to play
with some IMAP rules, and I'll just have to test it.
-- Sherman
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