On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:34 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: > Anyone got some recommendations / comments before I do the switch?
IMAP is bliss and you won't look back, though you'll find you need to pick your email client more carefully. One of the more reliable ones I've seen is Mozilla Thunderbird, though I personally use Evolution (not for Mac). I'm unimpressed with Mail.app's IMAP support on 10.2 but haven't tested it on 10.3 or 10.4. You do need to find an IMAP server that will give you a large quota, preferably one that also keeps good backups if you care about your mail. With IMAP your mail is actually kept on the server, you see, though you an usually set your client to download a complete copy. This is problem for me as I run an IMAP server for work, but this can make your ISP's email service unattractive both in capacity and backup quality. One alternative is to use POP3 with "leave mail on server". This works OK, but you don't get to share your read and replied status flags, message labels, etc. You also can't have the server filter your email into mailboxes before you even download it like you can with IMAP - for me that's a MASSIVE problem. Note that not all IMAP services will let you do server-side filtering, though. -- Craig Ringer
