On 2009-03-18, Jan-Herbert Damm <jan-h-d...@web.de> wrote:
> i have a "meta-question".
>
> imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently.
> i wonder what the benefit of imap generally is?
Compared to what?
> if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many
> people in agglomerations here in germany do) i can't think of
> the benefit of managing my mails on a remote server.
1) Managing e-mail on one server is a lot easier than managing
them on a half-dozen different machines.
2) I don't know about your boxes, but none of my machines have
redundant disks with automated backup, redundant internet
connections, backup power, 99.999% uptime, and so on.
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