Re: POP3 "resume download" extension

Laurence Lundblade wrote:
> We clearly don't want to make POP3 into IMAP4 for many many reasons :-)
> 
> One thing Chris Newman and myself were discussing a bit was a profile of
> IMAP that just supported the features needed to do off-line mode in IMAP.
> The idea is that these servers would address the problems ISP's have with
> deploying full IMAP (performance and resource issues, and complexity for
> set up, the end user and customer support).

I will vote in favour of this proposal!

> Then we could create a pop extension that means "don't use POP, offline
> IMAP supported at port XXX" and make the transition seamless for the user.

Alexey