Re: POP3

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 18 Dec 2015 at 15:36:05 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 18 December 2015 15:27:08 David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 18 Dec 2015 at 10:32:01 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 December 2015 09:49:59 Brian wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Also, run 'fetchmail --version' for debugging info.
> > > >
> > > > The guts of my ~/.fetchmailrc are
> > > >
> > > >   poll     <POP3 server>
> > > >   proto    pop3
> > > >   user     <Could be bob or bob@example.com>
> > > >   password <secret>
> > > >   ssl      <May or may not be needed. Depends on the server>
> > > >
> > > > 'fetchmail -c -v' for testing.
> > >
> > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles, lusers
> > > and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit to it?  (For
> > > the avoidance of doubt, I use POP3.)
> > >
> > > I won't admit to being a muggle or a luser (who, me?), but I am often
> > > prepared to admit to being a dinosaur.  However, in this case I actually
> > > don't agree with the premise.  Feel free to tell me that I am deluding
> > > myself and that I am indeed a dinosaur in this as well.
> > >
> > > I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does.
> >
> > Not sure what this has to do with "command not found" and,
> > in particular, "command not found [SOLVED]".
> 
> It hasn't.  But it is a continuation of the thread and I quoted from a mail in 
> the thread.  It does say "was" not "is" in the subject..  But it makes clear 
> I am not hijacking, but splitting the thread.  You have removed and not 
> quoted the "was".

Of course I removed the "was": it wasn't in the subject line of the
post you were responding to.

If there's a thread under "Discussion of how to configure and run
fetchmail" and someone responds with "Straw-poll on the popularity of
POP3, was Discussion of how to configure and run fetchmail", how does
the presence of "was" make one subject relevant to the other?

I just can't see the connection between helping someone get their
fetchmail installed and running, and whether people (and how many) are
"embarrassed to be" still running POP3 rather than IMAP.

And why is almost all this thread tagged {SOLVED]? It might be
justified if there was a solution to a well defined problem which was
now being refined; forgive me if I missed something but Gene asked like-
wise in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/12/msg00436.html
to which I have as yet seen no response.

Cheers,
David.