Re: Any Advice on changing from POP to IMAP ?

On Saturday 13 December 2008 07:30:56 Werner Joss wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2008 01:33:34 David Jarvie wrote:
> > I use IMAP because of the ability to leave mail on the server for access
> > from anywhere. But KMail under KDE 3.5 is pretty unreliable using IMAP -
> > the IMAP folder frequently hangs and often it is necessary to manually
> > delete its index files. (The KDE 4.1 version is even worse - I find it
> > completely unusable for IMAP.)
>
> hm,
> I can't confirm this - I never had major problems with IMAP, since earlier
> kde 3.x versions, whereas DIMAP was less stable, at least in kde 3.5.x
> (switched to kde 4.1.3 recently, and had no problems, since then).
> maybe the problems you mention are related to special server incarnations ?
>
I've used IMAP from my dovecot server for 2-3 years and never had a problem 
either.  However, DIMAP is more problematic (can't say for most recent 
versions).  My experience seems to agree with your conclusions.

Anne

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