Re: Any Advice on changing from POP to IMAP ?

Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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

I've been using DIMAP with dovecot for a long time.  No problems.  Currently with kde 4.1.3.