Out of Topic: IMAP

[Martin.Hepworth]

Yup imap has many advantages, chief amongst then is backup/restore, ie
one less reason to backup the desktops.

Also means you can start sharing info better with shared folders than
just every modern imap server does - may I recommend Dovecot.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Roger Jochem
> Sent: 08 February 2007 12:48
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Out of Topic: IMAP
>
> Since almost everyone here nows a lot about e-mail, server
configuration,
> and that kind of stuff, I was wondering: how many of you use IMAP
instead
> of
> POP3 for mail access?
>
> I allways used POP3 on my server, and reading about IMAP shows me a
lot of
> advantages... A problem would be the server disk size, but since disks
are
> not so expansive nowadays, I'm considering changing the protocol when
I
> upgrade my server.
>
> Any ideas or sugestions about it? Any of you that already had an
> experience
> with this could give me some tips, some impressions about it?
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Jochem
>
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