On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:56:33AM -0800, Eugene Lee wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:48:17AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> :
> :3 - If you search the list of UK ISPs (and there are hundreds) there
> : are virtually none that offer IMAP4. It's just not going to
> : happen I'm afraid, at least not for quite a while, in the meantime
> : we are stuck with POP3 and have to make the best of a less than
> : ideal compromise.
>
> If you need IMAP-like features in a POP3 environment, the best solution
> is Fetchmail. Hacking IMAP-like features with POP3 is a pain. Doing so
> within Mutt is insane. POP3 sucks.
>
This is where we came in! :-) I agree that POP3 is not the ideal
protocol to work with but it's the one that 99% of users are stuck
with for much of their mail. Fetchmail is a good solution *until* you
want to do things interactively with your POP3 mail box.
The one thing that I would like (and I think some other people would
like) is a means to interactively decide what to do with mail in a
POP3 mailbox. Fetchmail can't do this, the interactive requirement
puts the facility squarely into the MUA I'm afraid.
As I said previously, I'm already using mutt on IMAP4 mailboxes and
like it (and report back to the developers) but I still have POP3
mailboxes to deal with as well.
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