El mié, 23-01-2013 a las 09:47 +0100, Andre Klapper escribió:

> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 08:28 +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > And awilliam@ is most certainly wrong that POP is inappropriate to use
> > on an account shared with several devices. 
> 
> Errm, no.
> POP was simply NOT made for being moved on several devices. Sure there
> are hacks and workarounds out there (like "Leave messages on server"),
> but IMAP was designed with this problem in mind at least (of course any
> implementation could still do things wrong though).
> 
> > On the other side you have your email secure on the local server and
> > when you lose access to your server account, move it or get hacked
> > they are still there on your local PC. 
> 
> That's the same case for IMAP if you download messages for offline use.
> 
> > IMAP on the other side can be very fickle when several devices access
> > the same mailbox. If you have not used it before - there are many new
> > ways of losing email permanently. 
> 
> I can imagine problems (and sometimes face problems with IMAP in
> Evolution myself), but I'd state the same about POP (which I have more
> problems with in Evolution).
> 
> andre


"Leave messages on server" is not a hack, is just an option.


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