On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:34:18PM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Chris G wrote: > >> On >> the other hand if you *don't* need to access mail from anywhere then >> IMAP is slower than other ways of doing it and doesn't add any other >> particular advantages. > > Depends. Most people using IMAP use it through IMAP providers which > "guarantee" you 24/7 availability. You mostly have professional admins > who do the work for you and ensure you have access to mail. With local > management, that would be your job. For example, your harddisk with the > mail spool dies and all mail is gone. That is rather unlikely to happen > with say gmail. > There's absolutely nothing that prevents you using, for example, fetchmail to get your mail from an IMAP server to a local repository of some sort. You then have the security of the remote IMAP management and the speed of local mail.
I suppose you could argue that this is what off-line IMAP does but, as far as I know, there are *very* few good MUA implementations of off-line IMAP. -- Chris Green
