On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:56:19 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 10/16/20 3:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing
>> mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In fact I'd
>> do that even if I was the somebody else, as I once used to be. People
>> say there are reasons for using POP, and perhaps there are for some
>> people, but frankly I've never been convinced by any of them.
>
> Local email lets me read and respond while offline, such as on a train.
> And it is so much faster :-)
Sure, but that is not something specific to POP3. Most IMAP clients can
do that as well.
Agreed, and I did not want to imply otherwise. When I used IMAP long ago, it somehow did
not keep mail on the server enough for fetchmail to recognize that I still wanted it
downloaded on the other machine(s). That is why I gave up. Likely there was an error in my
configuration.
Thanks,
Ranjan