On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:56:19 -0700 Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:

> On 10/16/20 3:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing
> >> mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In fact I'd
> >> do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People
> >> say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some
> >> people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them.
> >
> > Local email lets me read and respond while offline, such as on a train.
> > And it is so much faster :-)
>
> Sure, but that is not something specific to POP3.  Most IMAP clients can
> do that as well.

Agreed, and I did not want to imply otherwise. When I used IMAP long ago, it 
somehow did not keep mail on the server enough for fetchmail to recognize that 
I still wanted it downloaded on the other machine(s). That is why I gave up. 
Likely there was an error in my configuration.

Thanks,
Ranjan
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