On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Fri 12 Oct 2012 21:50:47 NZDT +1300, chris wrote:
gmail accepts imap...
using dialup?
Yes. Dialup is a method to connect to the Internet. How you connect to
the Internet is totally irrelevant for how you connect to your mail
server. I don't expect the traffic volume to be substantially different
between imap and pop.
Volker
Actually, IMAP could even help you save some of your preciously few
dial-up bytes, because, unlike POP usually does, it does not download
the entire message content, but just a listing of messages on the
server. Managing messages on the server, most importantly
deleting all the rubbish _without_ having to download it first,
is a lot easier with IMAP in comparison to POP.
Regarding the claim some made here that all email clients suck...
agreed, obviously with the one notable exception of pine / alpine... I
have been using pine for about two decades now, and it still beats
everything else in terms of efficiency. It works fine with either POP
or IMAP, and also with local mailbox files.
This leads on to another question - and this may already have been
covered by someone here, so sorry if I missed it and it's redundant:
the mail client itself doesn't really have to work with either POP or
IMAP if it can work with local mailbox files. An architecture that was
quite common in the days of dial-up was using fetchmail to get the
mail using POP, storing it in local files (often using procmail for
filtering and sorting), and the mail client would then open these
files. For sending mail, it would dispatch to the local MTA (often
sendmail or postfix), which could be configured to either request
dial-on-demand or could monitor the connection status and dispatch the
mail when the connection next came up. This approach would usually
work with POP - I am not sure whether or how it would work with IMAP.
Maybe a few more comments on pine: it is all text-based, and that
makes it lean, small and fast. However it will call whatever other
applications are required to display attachments. It has its own
text-based view of HTML mails, which is what I am mostly using.
Sometimes, when I get fancier HTML emails with lots of pictures, I
simply ask pine to show them in the external browser (can be any web
browser as per user configuration).
Just some thoughts...
Kind regards,
Helmut.
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