Re: OT: why I don't want CCs
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:48:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > Apples and oranges, but ideally an MUA doesn't need POP or IMAP support
> > no.
>
> Implementing IMAP support outside the client is almost insane. IMAP
> leaves the mail on the server most of the time, and downloads the
> messages as they are selected. It's *even* worse than doing NNTP outside
> a news client because IMAP is read-write, where NNTP is read only.
Two packages (that I know of) in Debian do just this:
- offlineimap
- isync
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Jamin W. Collins
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