Re: Any Advice on changing from POP to IMAP ?

On Sat 13 December 2008 11:54:05 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2008, 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 have made the same experience, i.e. no major problems. I've been using
> IMAP exclusively since more than 2 years. Even lost connections to the
> server don't cause major problems. Very seldom (once a month tops), I
> have to re-start KMail (and kill the kio_imap4 ioslaves) because it
> fails to connect to the server after a lost connection.
>
> I'm connecting to a Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server. For a short
> time I also connected to my GMail account without experiencing any
> problems.
>
> David, what server(s) are you experiencing those problems with?

Looking at my IMAP headers, they have an identifier of dmail-2007a.17 in the 
first header ("Received:").

Cheers,
-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm