On 01/31/15 01:57 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nikola M <[email protected]> wrote:
People in the business and personal world are using Mail clients very
intensively.
Not every Mail server admin or service provider is happy with keeping all
copies of all messages on servers forever, so Mail clients are in wide use
and they will stay being one of main tools for actually main service on the
internet, e-mail.
In my experience that's mostly only true in shops that rely heavily on MS
Exchange and MS Outlook. Most other places I've worked either had already
outsourced to a webmail provider, or were trying to do so. But your
mileage may vary.
Nothing stops you to use IMAP client on all your devices and I bet there is
wide range of solutions on any possible platform, correct me if I am wrong.
I used to do that, but they were constantly getting out of sync,
disagreeing about which messages were read/unread, undeleting each others'
deleted messages, leaving messages-that-weren't-messages with config
information in them, etc. It seems that while IMAP is a standard, the way
clients actually use the server is not at all standardized. Eventually it
got to be too much of a hassle.
Dunno, that's why I have solution of: "Thunderbird everywhere" (tm) . :)
At least they support all desktop platforms.
And people usually recognize Outlook is one-platform and costly solution.
And for rest of (not so sane) clients, there is POP3.
Actually I hope more people would realize over time that having personal
mail client , even in the form of isolated Web client for user only, is
better choice for freedom etc. And who knows maybe something else will
sprung up on internet, who knows.
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