[maemo-users] Diablo's Modest/Email

[From: Mark]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com> wrote:
> Say what? IMSP is Windoze and POP is Linux? horsefeathers! IMAP and POP
> are very, very different, so comparisons fail. The real power of IMAP
> becomes apparent when you want to see just the headers of the messages and
> decide which ones to download. POP just gets them for you, even if they
> are huge and your device is tiny and the bandwidth is negligible.
>

Um, no, maybe it's one of those "ugly hacks", but viewing just the
headers is possible with POP3. Also, telneting to pine gives the
equivalent functionality *without* any hacks.

> All that said, I still can't fathom why would anyone really want all the
> email on a mobile device that is prone to loss or failure when dropped.

I agree, and that's why I said I don't do that...

> Having a tiny Linux server that fetches all your email from all the
> sources, puts it in appropriate folders and presents it to you locally or
> remotely via POP and IMAP seems to me a far better solution that comes
> with automatic backups, mirrored drives and any number of safety and
> anti-spam features you'd want to use.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> julius
>

That's a great idea, but only for those with the technical expertise...

Mark