On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:34:14 -0500, Allie Martin wrote: > If you really love TB!'s features, then you'll not find a client good > enough to replace it, so if you look for better working IMAP than what > TB! currently offers, you'll find it, but then, you'll lose not being > able to work with some of TB!'s nice features. This is the case for me > with ThunderBird.
No doubt if I do go to IMAP, I will use TB as my client. Quite honestly, I am less concerned about the bugs in the bat than just the simple mechanics of the move. I don't like flying blind. > No. I'm just demonstrating that that server space provided by these > services is increasing. 2 yrs ago, the space for a Yahoo account was > 10MB. Not good for IMAP. Now it's 1 GB. Hard disk space is now cheaper > and hence more is being provided, an advantage for IMAP > providers/users. I see. But what confused me here is that these servers don't offer IMAP - Gmail not at all and Yahoo at least not with their free service. So even if they gave you 10GB of space, you would still be working with POP3 until they enable IMAP. > My own ISP doesn't provide IMAP as a service. I run my own IMAP > server. I use MDaemon personally, but it's not free and you'll need > the pro license. However, there are free solutions like Mercury/32 > that you could use. They run very stably on your machine with very > decent overhead. You can then connect to your machine when you're away > from home or on another machine in your home. My laptop is in my > bedroom and it's so easy to simply fire it up and manage my mail with > it in a seamless fashion and connecting to the IMAP server on my > little home LAN. I believe I follow what you are saying here. Sorry, I'm not very technical. If I understand correctly, I could take an old laptop with 30-40 GB of hard drive (got that - no problem), configure the laptop as an IMAP server (I reckon I can manage that), connect it via my permanent DSL connection (not too difficult), and that's it. All my mail is stored on the laptop, which collects the mail automatically somehow, and then when I want to use IMAP to check my mail, I simply connect to my laptop-IMAP-server. It all sounds good, but unfortunately I travel a lot - for weeks at a time. It seems to me that many things could go wrong with my laptop-IMAP-server while I am away. For example, a power blackout or forced reboot for whatever reason, and I could find myself for weeks with a problematic email connection and no local archive of messages. But I will think about it some more. Thanks a lot for the clarification. -- Avi Yashar Windows XP Pro SP2 and The Bat! Pro 3.0.2.10 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
