Re: Filters with multiple copies of pine running

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Matt Ackeret wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ross wrote:
>> > Do not login with two simultaneous users. If another user accesses the same
>> > account & does not get a recent flag, that proves to me the system is not
>> > intended for multiuser login service.
>> 
>> Umm, IMAP is definitely intended for multiple logins.  That's why I use it
>> instead of POP.. I can't hose my mailbox if I log in via multiple clients
>> simultaneously.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by the second half of that paragraph, irrelevant as
> POP is maybe, but IMAP is a communications protocol to maintain sync between
> client & server, not the key to multiuser as I understand IMAP. I am confident

(I realize I'm responding to an old message.)

It is the key, because if you try to log into the same mail account with
multiple POP clients, you will easily lose mail/mess up the account.

IMAP is designed to deal with multiple logins to the same mailbox.
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