On 3/20/2013 6:35 AM, DormitionSkete@hotmail.com wrote:
Well, like I said, we have real slow upload speeds. I think POP3 would give a better user experience.
About the only connectivity situation where POP3 might make for a better "user experience" is one of intermittent bursty sort that's prone to reliability issues.
IMAP provides for header-only enumations as well as partial body fetches on demand, as opposed to "all or nothing" POP3 access. With a suitable modern caching client, it will not re-download emails already viewed. I've never used any of the devices you mentioned, so I can't speak to how their mail clients are implemented.
We're using sendmail. I assume this is done in sendmail, not Dovecot?
No, sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), which is akin to the Postal Service. All it does is convey emails from one endpoint to another as reliably as possible. What is done with the mail once it's at that endpoint is left to the "consumer" of the mail, in this case, the Mail User Agent (MUA). It can be automatically processed/filed like via procmail or LMTP, or managed via the client through POP3 or IMAP4.
Your main concern sounds like performance from users who connect from outside of your enterprise network, which may happen even when your mobile devices are on site, due to the way they obtain their connectivity? Timo's replication idea is sensible to address that problem.
Good luck! =R=