Rajko wrote:
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:24:10 +0200 Per Jessen
wrote: ...
I would tend to agree with Linda that it is a poorly chosen default.
Default is for majority, or average, email users.
Default, majority have POP3 accounts. No question. easily over 75% of the market. IMAP -- very rare -- as B.G., (b4google), free mail services didn't keep email on their servers. IMAP was designed for corporate use where roaming profiles would be a strongly possibility. The default to store a 6G IMAP store in a users ROAMING profile that gets uploaded and downloaded to the server (or sync'ed anyway) @ each login is one of the most self-serving and unthinking decisions mozilla has made. My searches in a large email box take about -- FULL text are faster on IMAP than it could be locally. on a 24MB email box -- <1 second, on a 49MB email box... 7 seconds. (Weird!?).... Most of my email boxes are <15MB. (using Dovecot). They want to cache it locally for speed?, but I have to pay for it everytime I login/out with with a ~10-12 minute wait/Gig added to my logout time (max, that I waited for was 50 minutes, and about 1-2 for login. But then -- it's great...one of the reasons I put email on the server was to save space on local desktop (smaller drives) -- server has large disks. Of course when I logout, I get my email store duplicated multiple times (the original), and my Domain login, and my local login (also has roaming profile).
Also, most likely, none in a discussion has access to the statistical data about usage patterns, unlike Mozilla developers.
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