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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