Henning Schnoor wrote:
> But that would need a permanent connection to the internet, which many
It greatly depends on the degree of IMAP support in the email client.
IMAP is designed to permit complete disconnected operation, so that when
you dial up, you just have to "synchronize", and it gets the local and
server copies in harmony with each other (usually involves sending any
local changes you've made to the server (renaming folders,
moving/deleting/replying messages etc), and then getting updates back
from the server (new messages, or changes made when accessing from
another client).
The offline support in mozilla mail is coming along in leaps and bounds.
The downside if you used two clients on one machine is that there would
be some redundancy in communication since they don't share the same
local cache (as you're suggesting they should). The benefit is that you
can very easily use more than one machine to read your mail (e.g.
desktop, webmail, palmtop, ...)
Cheers,
Len.
