Hi Avi Yashar, On 17/02/2005 07:44 AM, you wrote: > 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.
IMAP's workings are largely seamless. Your actions etc. are pretty much
the same as if the messages were local.
> 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.
I just mentioned them to illustrate that the issue of server space is
now becoming moot. You'll soon see IMAP being offered more and more by
these services as bandwidth and server space become less and less of an
issue for users and providers.
> 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),
The server is just a piece of software that you install and run as you
would your client. So yes, you could use your old laptop as a machine to
use as your dedicated mailserver. However, note that I don't use a
dedicated machine for this.
> 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.
That's right.
> 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.
Well, you're outlining other disadvantages to running your own server
solution. Yes, you'd need a reliable machine that will reboot in the
event of a power failure. You can set your server to autostart on
rebooting. I've been running my own server for years and have traveled
without having any significant problems.
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