[sylpheed:30331] Re: junk filtering not automatic

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:02:49 +0100
Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels at ecc.lu> wrote:

> > Sounds like a catch 22.  If it's not well-supported in sylpheed,
> > the number of sylpheed IMAP users will continue to be small.
> 
> IMAP would typically be useful to people who want to access their
> mailbox from a number of systems that are geographically distant and
> linked through slow links, or have an OS that has a non-network based
> GUI. 

Believe me, you don't want to use IMAP on slow links (where slow is up to or
slower than ISDN).  Webmail perform much better in these situations, even
with all the intrinsic overheads.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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