Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
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On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>>> Out of curiosity, why don't you implement IMAP?
>>> Because at the moment it's all on the same computer. I am thinking
>>> to go for IMAP as soon as I get my firewall back on line (hdd is
>>> down),
>> Ah, a security issue.
>
> No, it's just that I don't see the reason of IMAP on the same computer.
To allow access to the central mail store from many locations.
> If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IMAP
> would be the best choice to access it.
That's the *second worst* place to put it.
>>> though this would mean I don't have my mails on my laptop.
>> Sure it would. That's the whole point of IMAP: Internet Mail ACCESS
>> Protocol.
>
> On line yes, but offline... and yes, I know I can download the mail
> also on the laptop, but that would beat the whole purpose of having a
> centralised mailstore.
That's just a cache, though. It's not the canonical version of your
email.
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