On 7 Jul 2004 at 9:50, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > Also, since I used to check my main email from POP clients at both > home and work, it's pretty tedious sorting through mail I've already > read at work once I get home, and vice versa. I use multiple computers > on a regular basis, so "away from my base PC" happens every day.
Does your ISP and your email client support IMAP? If so, then maybe you should stop using POP. I'd love to switch to IMAP myself (the support is there for me), but I fear it's a one-way switch, and I don't know what the implications of it are for client-side vs. server-side folders. I really don't want all my folders to be server-side -- I have a careful filing system, with one incoming mailbox that hardly ever has any email in it, since my filtering rules sort 99.9% of the incoming mail into my secondary "inboxes." Those are the ones where my new and pending email is kept. I'd want those server-side. Once I act on an email message, I move it to various filing folders, which I'd want client- side. I've never been able to figure out if this is all doable with IMAP without jumping through hoops. And I don't know what happens to my POP setup -- I don't really want to have folders server-side if I want to switch back to POP, as then I'm stuck with messages on the server and don't know if I can get them down to my PC. Then there's the issue of my multiple accounts. With Pegasus Mail and the Mercury Mail POP client, I use single inbox on my PC that is fed from 3 different POP accounts, and then sorted out into my secondary inboxes. I don't know if IMAP can be run that way without forwarding between accounts. That wouldn't be a disaster as only one of my 3 main accounts is non-forwardable, but it's also the one I get the least email in, so it would be very easy to miss email that way. Has anyone made the switch from POP to IMAP with a setup even remotely resembling the complexities I describe above? Has anyone switched *back* from IMAP to POP? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
