Re: Any Advice on changing from POP to IMAP ?

On Saturday 13 December 2008 14:36:57 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> The reason I haven't switched to imap is I believe you have to duplicate
> every mail on the server in each place you want to use imap.

no.
that is only with DIMAP, not plain IMAP, which implies all mails are stored on 
the server and never get copied/duplicated.
your mail client just looks at them.

> So if I used imap with my gmail account, my entire gmail history would have
> to be downloaded. Also, if I delete a mail through kmail, it would be
> deleted on the server too (not archived or anything like that).

that's right :)

werner