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

[steve harley]

they whom i call Michael Brian Bentley wrote:
> Ok. I'm not sure about the upsides. If I have 10GB of mail on the 
> server, I'd expect that's where search operations would take place. Mail 
> is mail, yeah, but if I have 10GB of it, I need to have the system deal 
> with it on my behalf, and that includes providing management and data 
> mining.

i'm no expert on IMAP, but it sure doesn't seem to have any kind 
of intrinsic boolean searching capability ... that means for 
sophisticated searches you have to rely on the client searching 
the local cache (with the capabilities varying by client, of course)