Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Sean McBride
Lane Roathe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2007-05-08 00:33 said: I've never figured out the attraction of IMAP, maybe just because I'm focused on speed so much. Using both in several programs and via webmail I continue to prefer POP3 from both a user and server perspective. (Although anymore I have to

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Mikael Byström
Lane Roathe suggested: If PM ever goes to the dark side and becomes HTML compliant, I'll switch to another program - As nothing most likely would stop you, under the described scenario, from sending plain text messages and keep labeling incoming HTML- messages as spam, that is a quite a childish

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Mikael Byström
Curtis suggested: Webmail has made serious inroads into the popularity of IMAP. Webmail offers portability of email across machines, and with adequate functionality to please the majority of users interested in such portability. According to what reputable authority? Mikael Tech facts: PM

Not Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Lewis
Mikael Byström sez: Lane Roathe suggested: If PM ever goes to the dark side and becomes HTML compliant, I'll switch to another program - As nothing most likely would stop you, under the described scenario, from sending plain text messages and keep labeling incoming HTML- messages as spam, that

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Barbara Needham
Sean McBride on 5/9/07 said For most, the biggest thing is being able to keep your mail at work, home, and laptop all in sync. I manage to do this with pop mail, by not deleting from server. However, this works only for INCOMING. For outgoing, it does not. There IMAP does have the advantage if

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Charles Watts-Jones
On 9 May Barbara Needham wrote: On the other hand, I turn on IMAP in PowerMail when I need it [for .mac mail] I use my .mac account as a POP3 one. Works fine. Any advantage to using it as IMAP other than access to one's Sent mail from several machines? My young grandson accesses his .mac

powermail-discuss Digest #2629 - 05/09/07

2007-05-09 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2629 - Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Re: PowerMail and IMAP by Lane Roathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: PowerMail and IMAP by Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: PowerMail and IMAP by Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: PowerMail and IMAP

Re: Not Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Mikael Byström
Michael Lewis exploded: Geez, louise, you're rude. Can you tone it down a bit, please? It's really getting tiresome when you jump all over a person's case for stating a personal preference as if it is some personal attack on you or something. I didn't see anything in Lane's post that said you

Re: Not Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Lewis
Mikael Byström sez: And, yes I can tone it down nevertheless. There's no need for making people angry for the sake of it. My apologies. See how easy that was, and how unnecessary the rest was? Thanks! -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Lane Roathe
on Wed, May 9, 2007 Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have said: It's like if I said if PM ever switches to an _optional_ OS X metal interface, I'd switch. Like I couldn't keep using the old look (rolling up my eyes). I thought I'd addressed that by saying I'm not against improving IMAP or

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Sean McBride
Lane Roathe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2007-05-09 16:36 said: - 2GB DB size limit; be nice to get at least 4GB, that would hold me for a few more years until we can get the limit removed all together. Alas, CTM has said that they won't be upping this limit. :( I've managed to survive at 1.8 or so,

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

2007-05-09 Thread Sean McBride
Barbara Needham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2007-05-09 12:31 said: For most, the biggest thing is being able to keep your mail at work, home, and laptop all in sync. I manage to do this with pop mail, by not deleting from server. However, this works only for INCOMING. But it doesn't really _work_.