d...@blackshard.net (Matthew R. Trower) writes: > My experience was that when using fetchmail (or getmail, or dtmail's > builtin IMAP), you cannot leave messages on the server. If you do, they > will be repeatedly fetched, causing much duplication. Local deletion > also does not propagate back to the server. This is not how IMAP was > intended to work; it is glorified POP.
One feature of IMAP that goes a bit beyond just downloading your mail is the ability to be connected from multiple clients, making changes to the mailbox from more than one of them, and having it be dealt with gracefully. It provides something like a database for mail, handling activity the way a database server manages transactions. It's probably a good thing IMAP can do this too, considering the number of people who spend all day looking at their mail from their phones, three different laptops, and a smart waffle iron with an LCD touchscreen, who would be very hard to teach not to do things like that because of worries that it might corrupt their mailbox. -- - Brent Busby ++ "Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy." - < Studio > ++ -- Linus Torvalds, - < Amadeus > ++ creator of Linux
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