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| From | "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.telecom.broadband, alt.comp.software.thunderbird |
| Subject | Re: IMAP and POP |
| Date | 2026-10-04 16:02 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <119ttbg$9to$4@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <119esa3$2ps47$1@dont-email.me> <nic69cFl6enU1@mid.individual.net> <119rhiq$384c4$2@dont-email.me> <niet6pF1topU10@mid.individual.net> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >On 2026-10-03 20:29, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote: >>>J. P. Gilliver wrote: >>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>>Whether the client keeps folders in sync is supported by the protocol. >>>>>It's not a requirement. I don't sync. >>>>I'll freely admit I know nearly nothing about IMAP, but if you _don't_ >>>>sync, what is its advantage? >>>Most IMAP users will choose to sync the inbox, sent items, and perhaps >>>spam and drafts folders, with most servers you can create any other >>>folders you like to organise the mailbox, they won't automatically sync, >>>but most clients will let you choose ... >>I would not phrase it like that. >>Like pine/alpine, IMAP was written at UWash to support its own students >>who used email, perhaps for the first time at college. >>pine and alpine don't sync. >Fetchmail downloads. I have used pop3 or imap with fetchmail to download >from remote servers to local machine, to then read with Pine. alpine has a fetchmail-equivalent feature (or may call fetchmail) called Maildrop, which downloads messages from an inbox on a remote host. I don't use it myself. I believe the host receiving the messages may also be remote. I suppose the inbox could be on a local host! That's the wonderful thing about handling messages, as the client and the inbox or folder of archived messages may be on different hosts, without caring about remote versus local. >>The protocol supports syncing but it's a Mail client feature. The user >>must both desire syncing and choose a Mail client like Thunderbird that >>syncs. There may be Mail clients invoked from the Unix or linux shell >>that both support IMAP and syncing, but someone else will have to tell >>us. In my opinion, syncing increases the chance of an unwanted handling >>of a message because there is more than one host affected. >>Syncing is undesireable. Other users want syncing despite this increased >>risk of mishandling. >As we have the Thunderbird group in these posts, TB syncs just fine. I >never noticed a problem, using more than one computer. I didn't say that syncing failed. I'm saying that the user may misunderstand that the user may delete the message on one host without understanding that it will also get deleted at the other host upon syncing, and that he needed to move it from the inbox into an archive message folder immediately upon first reading it in the inbox. >Unless you are working offline, then the local version might differ from >the remote version. But I'm not supposed to store messages in the inbox in the first place! I should be archiving them in folders as I check the inbox! I swear I'll get to the backlong in my inbox some day. Seriously, IMAP works so nicely with multiple hosts, syncing gives me no added advantage.
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