On 7 Jul 2004 at 12:10, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:45:00 -0400, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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. > > What mail client do you use? . . .
Pegasus Mail. It has supported IMAP for years. > . . . It shouldn't be a problem if you're using > any of the major ones, such as Outlook. . . . You couldn't pay me to use Outlook (or Outlook Express, a completely different MS email client that happens to share the name). It's a pile of garbage, the worst email client I've ever seen. And with the new rash of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, if you're using Outlook (or Outlook Express), you're vulnerable, even if you never actually use IE as a web browser, because the HTML rendering and parts of the user interface in both Outlook and Outlook Express use Internet Explorer. > . . . On Outlook you could easily > just copy the email in the server-side folders into your client-side > folders and have it all ready to go back to POP access. Well, that's rather a lot of work, but at least not insurmountable. > > 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. > > IMAP cannot have a single Inbox for more than one account. The Inbox > is a part of the account itself, and unless you can forward your email > and funnel it all into one place you'll have to look at it separately. Well, that's what I said. The only reason Pegasus allows that is because its architecture actually derives from its Novell Netware origins. > Also, you could forward all your email to one address, . . . But, as I said, one account is non-forwardable, and it's the account that gets the least email, so it would be something of a problem. I don't know if Pegasus can be run in both POP and IMAP configuration at the same time (I doubt it), but local folders can be shared between logons, so it would just mean logging onto Pegasus under a different profile every now and again to check the other account. I dunno. I'm not sure it's worth it. Of course, this would be a great time to try it, as I'm going to be in California for three weeks starting the last week of July, and IMAP would be a good way to go. Of course, I guess my ISP's webmail is good enough. I used it last year when I was in CA for the same reason. -- 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
