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

[Scot Hacker]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:

> how  that still wouldn't be  enough for the *current needs* of some  
> users. Your  5GB IMAP  service will be great, but  that isn't the  
> norm, and I'm not in a position where I can offer  that kind of  
> storage to my users.

Also... Here at UC Berkeley, the central mail  system gives 100MB  
quotas to every user. Larger quotas are available for a ridiculous  
monthly sum. Dark ages? Maybe, but  that's the real world, and I know  
UCB isn't alone in this situation - it's common at universities,  
corporations, and web hosts all over the  place. IMAP users without  
sufficient training or an automated way of taking older mail off the  
server deal with quota  issues constantly.  POP just makes life   
easier in these situations. Apple could  get a nice leg up  by   
making IMAP the default protocol but  also building in automatic  
offline archiving.

./s