On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:31:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > 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 I am aware of both of those, but for many usages they are not very efficient. For example my uncle has about 2 Gigabytes of mail in hundreds of folders, it would be insane for him to have to sync all of that, when he can just use mozilla and use his mail normally. Bijan
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