Joel Reicher wrote:
Shawn Walker writes:
I would say that Nokia N800 does not store all of you message on your phone.
I can access my 15,000
IMAP folder with my iPhone with 16 GB of memory, but the iPhone does not does
download all 15,000
messages, just the first 100 or whatever I have it configured it for.
Why are you downloading any?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1733
"No mailbox data are kept on the client; the client retrieves data from
the server as is needed."
Did you mean to say "caching"?
Yes, caching and to allow the users to work/read their messages while offline. It's just not
messages, but events, tasks, contacts, etc.
And for anybody to be able to read their messages from the server, it has to be downloaded unless
I'm missing something about how to get the messages from the server to the client.
The users that we are dealing with will and always will download all 30,000,
100,000 1,000,000
messages to their computer. We cannot control how the user want to use the p
roduct. Unless we
really cripple how the product work.
When Jon Postel said "...be liberal in what you accept from others" he
probably did not have this kind of protocol abuse in mind.
Force these non-IMAP users to use POP; that's what they're already doing.
POP won't give the ability for the users use the IMAP server as the data storage for their messages.
I'm not running a server for these users, just providing them a application to be able to
groupware functionality of their data on the IMAP server.
I also cannot tell users how they managed their data on the server. That's the admin's job that is
maintaining those IMAP servers and set quotas to limit how much data the user can have on the
server. And there are some admin that doesn't set a quota so the user has unlimited space to store
their messages.
Cheers,
- Joel
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