On 2018-12-13 13:05, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > Whether to use IMAP at all -- well, one reason to use IMAP, even if > you have direct access to the mail files, is so you can use any mail > reader, not just one. When various mail readers read and write files > directly, even file formats that are supposedly the same, the mail > readers may not do it compatibly with each other. That's especially > true of mbox, which is actually many related file formats, not just > one. > > Also, IMAP allows concurrent access. Direct access to files by a mail > reader many or may not implement concurrent access.
I copy message files from the new/ part of my spool on the server to my local box for reading. Since this is just a file copy the lock-freedom of the maildir format avoids any concurrency problems. I agree that there are good reasons to use IMAP, but none of them seem to apply to me :) -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
