On 2/4/01 9:51 PM, "W John Carlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
No, and its silly to think with most SPs that you can provide a more
reliable hosting environment then they can. We just spent millions to
develop top notch data centers with features and reliability that most
businesses can only dream of. (we backup customer data too :-)
>
>>>> 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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