On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 23:39, Mark Crispin wrote: > > I use IMAP only at home for accesssing my mails, elsewhere I > > just ssh into my server and read the mails there. Good and secure ssh > > clients are easier to find and setup than IMAP clients. > > Well, you stated your problem: you don't use a good IMAP client.
That could be it. Installing and running would have to be as easy as sshing with putty though. Meaning you could get imapclient.exe from web page which you can run directly, only required configuration should be entering username, password and IMAP server host. Actually it would also need SMTP server configuration unless it acts as such itself. Maybe IMAP server could give some SMTP configuration hints to client so user wouldn't have to set those manually. > I wouldn't think of ssh'ing into my server to read my mail. I happen to > have that privilege as a server software maintainer, but most users can > not. It wouldn't have to be the mail server by itself. It could just be any UNIX box where you would have Pine accessing your mail via IMAP :) No problems with moving client configuration, no problems of your faviourite IMAP client not being supported on the platform you're just using. SSH clients exist pretty much everywhere. Well, this is pretty much off topic already. So on topic summary: I'm not against clients doing well optimized server fetches, but I don't think clients failing to do so are useless crap. And I still don't see how sequences would be inherently better for client to use than UIDs.
