[Zope] Worldpilot (was Re: Any news from ZOPE track? )

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Jochen Haeberle wrote
> Why only IMAP? POP is used much more and does not have all the 
> problems IMAP implementaions have these days. Do you inted WorldPilot 
> to be used as the only MailClient or as a supplement when out of 
> office? This way a POP client would suffice (could be set to not 
> delete messages from the server by default)

The problem with POP is that the webserver has to download all
the messages to itself to be able to do anything with it. Once it's
downloaded them, it can't put them back afterwards.

"keep mail on server" is a really really nasty hack. It just doesn't
work for a mailbox of any complexity.


> OT: With all the mail I keep in my local mailbox I don't know how
> IMAP will ever be the way for me, although I'd love to have access to
> all the mail from everywhere...
> 
> Jochen
> 
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