[Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

[Scott Silva]

on 10/24/2007 11:23 AM FiL @ Kpoxa spake the following:
> rac at noidea.us wrote:
>> Lars Stavholm wrote:
>>  
>>> Well, as a matter of being somewhat relaxed about things like this,
>>> I would like the users to choose whatever suits them, as opposed to
>>> some techie moron (me) making the choice for them. Common sense, right?
>>>
>>>     
>> Actually, from my experience, a user will do whatever the techie tells
>> them, because they don't really know the difference...I've forcibly
>> moved users on my server to IMAP, and they didn't realize until then how
>> much better it was than POP3....
>>   
> Some of my users have (and really want to continue) over 10Gb of email. 
> And that is growing.
> I do prefer these users on POP3, so they are on their own with all that.
> Just an example...
> 
> FiL
> 
> 
> 
But users quickly learn to check the box "leave mail on server" and then you 
will get the angry calls of " I keep getting the same 200 e-mails over and 
over". Space is cheap, and if you are in a corporate environment, keeping mail 
on the server makes for easy backups.


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