Adrian Havill wrote:
>
> Christopher Wong wrote:
>
> >Is there a good IMAP client review out there? What makes a "good" IMAP
> >client, apart from the subjective stuff?
> >
> The IMAP protocol has three modes, offline (just-like-POP3 mode)
> (supported by fetchmail), online (supported by Pine), and disconnected.
> Doing offline and online are relatively easy, and offline is cool for
> the roamer or someone on a slow connection that wants to edit in chunks
> rather than deal with the latency, so IMO a client that does
> disconnected mode is a "good" client.
>
> Disconnected is the mode that very few clients really support-- many
> claim they do, but lie. :) Disconnected mode means a cache of your mail
> is kept on your local machine, and when you reconnect to the imap
> server, imap uses it's protocol abilities to "resync" with the master
> copy... even if changes have occurred to the master-- kinda like CVS.
> Most clients that claim to do disconnected mode really just cache on the
> client but make no attempt to resync flags changes, message moves, etc.
> (Netscape & Mozilla cache for off-line viewing, but client side
> changes/edits while disconnected will be clobbered upon reconnecting)
What about Evolution, which claims to support Disconnected IMAP.
http://www.ximian.com/apps/evolution-features.php3#corporatestandards
I haven't used IMPA yet (Need a method to filter messages on the server
and our server doesn't do it yet.) so I can't test it.
Do the newer releases of Mozilla (0.92 and 0.93) work correctly/fully?
Is support planned for it?
-Thomas
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