Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
On 11/10/2010 10:08 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
for all practical means, consider POP3 as obsolete Unless, of course, you want your clients playing the "Now which box did that e-mail get downloaded to?" game. And you want to endlessly explain the use of "leave a copy of mail on the server" and why the "delete after ___ days" and "delete when deleted from trash" flags really do not work.
If that is the objective, then by all means, consider pop3 :p
Seriously, Christian is right, dovecot imap is the way to go...
I agree, unless you'd prefer not to have to deal with the storage issue.
Thanks for the info and advice everybody. My situation is kind of the reverse. People here have been experiencing problems with our mail system but my POP3 connection has been fine. The mail admin wanted me to change to POP3 and claimed that POP3 used a lot more resources than IMAP, which struck me as unlikely. It turns out we are using Dovecot and it has a bug that's been there since at least 2003 that affects its POP3 performance. There are patches but apparently his chosen distro vendor (RH :( ) hasn't shipped them for the release he's using. As a Perl user, I wind him up about RH occasionally :) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org