On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:25:00 +0000 Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You might wonder why I'm so partial to IMAP: A fair question indeed. > > I think a fairer question would be why anyone would be against it ! > OK, there's one reason - and that's if you are not running you own > mail server in which case you are reliant on your provider not losing > your mail for you > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/03/plusnet_loses_deleted_emails/) If the fear of loosing your mail archive is the only reason to avoid IMAP: Many IMAP capable mail clients support synchronizing to local folders. For those that don't, you can easily create a local (or remote) backup with isync/mbsync which could even be evoked by the mail client itself, like ol' fetchmail: just set up an additional "backup account". _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
