It's true that IMAP need to bring the msg down whenever you want to read it. The
client can do some caching but still, the initial reading will still read it of
the network.
Where it helps is that you get the initial msg list faster because you only get
down header summary. Smart client will only download the last couple screenful
of msg list. Searching is also fast because the server does it for you. But more
importantly refiling of messages is done completely on the server. No message
downloading/uploading. When remote login is the only access I have, then I'll
login to any of the remote machine that has PINE with IMAP access.
While I've been happy using IMAP via dialin, I sometimes wish I can do all my
mail activity offline. So there is no perfect solution.
Andy Maas
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 12:19:21 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: John Gardiner Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SL/IP, AFS and Applications
The long term solution would be to use IMAP instead of POP and AFS.
Then there would be no need to constantly copy mail from one remote
server to another.
How does that help? Seems to me it would make things worse, because you
would have to bring the message over the serial line every time you want to
read it.
