Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 12:03 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) by deweerdt
Parent article: Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com)

one of the key advantages of useing IMAP is that your mail remains in one place, no matter what machine you read it from.

saying that you need to pull a copy of the mail to your local machine (whichever machine you happen to be on at the time) and then deal with it there is a major change and regression.

now I realize that a lot of people only ever use one machine for reading mail and aren't bothered by this, but those of us whoend up useing many different machines to deal with our mail during the day _really_ don't want to end up with it spread all over the place so pulling a copy locally isn't a real option.

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Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 20:33 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> one of the key advantages of useing IMAP is that your mail remains in one
> place, no matter what machine you read it from.

As a bit of a side note, PINE supports remote configs stored on the IMAP server. It also supports remote address books. The upshot is that _any_ machine with a copy of PINE available can be _your_ copy of PINE without changing any state on the local machine.

IIRC Netscape had something similar where you could store your config on an LDAP server (probably because they also sold LDAP server software).