On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> People in the business and personal world are using Mail clients very > intensively. > Not every Mail server admin or service provider is happy with keeping all > copies of all messages on servers forever, so Mail clients are in wide use > and they will stay being one of main tools for actually main service on the > internet, e-mail. > In my experience that's mostly only true in shops that rely heavily on MS Exchange and MS Outlook. Most other places I've worked either had already outsourced to a webmail provider, or were trying to do so. But your mileage may vary. Nothing stops you to use IMAP client on all your devices and I bet there is > wide range of solutions on any possible platform, correct me if I am wrong. > I used to do that, but they were constantly getting out of sync, disagreeing about which messages were read/unread, undeleting each others' deleted messages, leaving messages-that-weren't-messages with config information in them, etc. It seems that while IMAP is a standard, the way clients actually use the server is not at all standardized. Eventually it got to be too much of a hassle. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
