Paul writes: > The benefits of IMAP are obvious to everyone who has > looked at it in any depth, and yet it is very thinly > deployed. The main reason: the perceived additional > administrative overhead.
A more significant reason, perhaps: IMAP is a solution looking for a problem, in most cases. POP3 provides a way to move mail from a server to a user agent, and that is all that is really required for 99% of all users. Organizations that use IMAP are often in a position to simply adopt a proprietary system with even more advanced functionality, such as Notes or Exchange. The average Internet user, however, has little incentive or need to try IMAP. > But they believe that the overhead of the needed > trust system, and the cost of losing mail that didn't > go through the trust system, is simply too high. I agree. Doing much more than they are doing now would get very expensive, very quickly.
