Jeff Porter, on 2/4/01 8:04 pm, wrote:
>> I don't download 3000+ messages/day, headers or the full thing. Do you? I
>> get 100-200 max. Besides, I have a fast cable modem, and all they offer is
>> POP.
>
> I get several thousand. It all depends on how you read your mail. If you
> have a single computer, or you don't travel, POP is probably the better
> choice as most mail programs support it better and provide more features for
> it.
Several thousand--it hurts to think about that! But I only do email at most
a couple hours a day usually. I agree about the support of email programs. I
can only handle my rate of email by filtering it into about a hundred
different folders, and I often don't access some for months (reference
material from newsgroups and mailing lists, which I read in my
topic-oriented archive databases).
> You rely on SPs to host your web site - but you don't trust them to host
> your mail?
Everything on my web site in copied there from my own Mac. Nothing to lose.
And user response is via email. I used to even host it myself, but that is
not practical now with my PowerBook.
>>> If you are that worried
>>> about your email server, that is a different issue from IMAP.
>>
>> If you have a departmental or small company server, and you can easily get
>> at the backups, then that is a different matter. But buying a IMAP service
>> from strangers is kinda silly. But a company owning its own server could be
>> done with POP, and often has. That would make me trust it more, as part of
>> my backup system.
>
> SLAs - you probably put more than you know into the hands of others. I
> completely trust my provider will do a better job storing my mail than I
> will do with my home computer or my Powerbook.
I only trust them to deliver and send my email, like everyone does, and I
get mail off the server several times an hour. I do the rest, including
redundant backups. Even when I trust it to save unread messages for several
days, its just something useful. And besides, I don't get much really
important email. I tend, under the circumstances, to trust myself. If I had
other needs, I might
> Agreed - like I said, IMAP is the best for business users on the move or
> power users of email.
Agreed, though I still add that ultimately it depends on the user's needs,
and his work/play habits. Or on what the boss says. :)
Cheers,
John
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