"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol that keeps mail on the > server.
I never bothered exploring IMAP as an alternative to POP from my own mail reading. While mostly it was due to unwillingness to invest time and effort into this, part of the reason was that I learned (read? heard? I don't recall...) that the mail stays on the server. My paranoia tells me that I would like to keep the time my mail sits on an ISP server to the minimum. Assuming that I assign a high priority to the privacy of my mail, what arguments are there for and against switching from POP to IMAP? In any case, Geoff, I don't quite see what the choice of protocol has to do with mulix's question. AFAIK, fetchmail handles various versions of IMAP and POP, so does GNUS if you care to use it to retrieve mail (I stick to fetchmail in order to keep retrieval independent of MUA), pine, etc. I suspect you misread the original posting, since mulix was specifically looking for a non-X MUA. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
