http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-29682 Hoa Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:51:50 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/#comment-29682 Though, from a user point of view, if you store your IMAP account on a provider server, the problem is that most of time, there will be a quota, which will not allow you to store all emails of your life, then, will make it less easy to use than POP3 retrevial since you'll have to manage disk space. For my personal experience, I use an IMAP server at home on my own server, which is accessible from the internet, so that I can get rid of the quota problem. From the protocol point of view (then, developer point of view), for a client, you can use existing IMAP libraries that will do the parsing for you. You you develop a server, that is still a different story ... Though, from a user point of view, if you store your IMAP account on a provider server, the problem is that most of time, there will be a quota, which will not allow you to store all emails of your life, then, will make it less easy to use than POP3 retrevial since you’ll have to manage disk space.
For my personal experience, I use an IMAP server at home on my own server, which is accessible from the internet, so that I can get rid of the quota problem.
From the protocol point of view (then, developer point of view), for a client, you can use existing IMAP libraries that will do the parsing for you. You you develop a server, that is still a different story …

]]> http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-29605 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Big Wraps for IMAP (and tuffmail) Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:33:54 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/#comment-29605 [...] Not long ago Mail.app guru Joe Kissell was singing the praises of IMAP for email. [...] [...] Not long ago Mail.app guru Joe Kissell was singing the praises of IMAP for email. [...]

]]> http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 sjk Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:29:06 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/#comment-6265 From a user perspective, would you hate IMAP any less if client/server implementations were better? :-) From a user perspective, would you hate IMAP any less if client/server implementations were better? :-)

]]> http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-6162 Tony Meyer Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:59:10 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/06/10/the-virtues-of-imap/#comment-6162 One little note from your local IMAP-hater: his article isn't really praising IMAP-the-protocol, it's praising the idea of leaving mail on the server. The protocol itself isn't discussed - this is all user-level stuff. One little note from your local IMAP-hater: his article isn’t really praising IMAP-the-protocol, it’s praising the idea of leaving mail on the server. The protocol itself isn’t discussed – this is all user-level stuff.

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