"The Great Debate" - POP vs IMAP (fork of Mail Problems)

[j o a r]

On 5 okt 2006, at 21.31, Scot Hacker wrote:

>> This is more of a IMAP client problem than anything with the  
>> protocol.  It'd be very simple for an email client to have an  
>> "archive all email of this account" command, and simply suck  
>> everything from the IMAP account into an archive.
>
> That feature would solve so much. It  amazes me that Mail.app  
> doesn't already have  this built  in.

What would it solve? You can already copy (manually, or via a script)  
your IMAP folders / messages to a local folder.


On 5 okt 2006, at 23.09, Roland Torres wrote:

> That feature would indeed be a lifesaver. We switched all our users  
> from POP to IMAP, but the IMAP server (OSXS) went 'belly up' after  
> a few months and lost all the messages (meaning everyone lost all  
> of their messages). Now we have everyone set up, still with IMAP,  
> but they have one or more Mail.app rules that copy their messages  
> to local mailboxes, thus archiving them to each user's machine.  
> Maybe there's a better way, but in this way, even if the server  
> goes out again, at least users have local access to their old  
> messages, and not want to slit my throat.

A mailserver without backup? I can understand why your users would  
want to slit your throat...

j o a r