[Leica] OT mail program help please

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Brian Reid wrote:

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>>>> Does such a program exist?
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>>>> If so,  what program best fills the bill?
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> There are two radically different ways that a mail program can  
> operate. In the first way, it keeps all of the mail locally on your  
> computer, and interacts with the server only for the purpose of  
> getting new mail and sending outgoing mail. In the second way, it  
> keeps all of the mail on the server, and interacts with the server  
> for everything that it does.
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> If you will be reading your mail from more than one location, or  
> from both regular mail and webmail, then you usually benefit from  
> having the mail live on the server. (Plus, servers customarily have  
> more reliable backups). If searching your mail is a primary concern,  
> or if you want to be able to review old mail when you are not  
> online, then you usually benefit from having the mail live on your  
> computer.
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> The usual nicknames for these two modes of operation are POP and  
> IMAP. If your mail client is configured to use POP, it will keep the  
> mail locally. If it is configured to use IMAP (or Microsoft's MAPI),  
> it will keep the mail on the server.

I have generally used POP.... have CoX Cable... usually am in one  
place...have constant online access, and often need to search old  
mail...

> Any given mail program is architected to work best with one of these  
> methods and to work adequately with the other.
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> Apple's Mail program seems to have been designed to work best with  
> IMAP -- the "leave the mail on the server" mode. I'm guessing the  
> way you asked your question that you are a POP (keep mail locally)  
> user.

yes... usually...I would like an archive locally of mail that I can  
search, and I don't like the mbox configuration...


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> I have personal experience with 5 mail programs on the Mac:
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> Apple's Mail.app
> Eudora
> Mulberry
> Thunderbird
> Entourage (this is a version of Outlook, but for the Mac)
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> You're already using Mail.app. Eudora is old and unmaintained and  
> there will never be a major new release of it again. Mulberry is  
> what I use, but it is not for everyone, and it is pretty much  
> useless in POP mode. Entourage (from Microsoft) is the most common  
> choice of businesses that use Mac OS. Thunderbird is the most common  
> choice of computer geeks, but it, too, is now unmaintained and will  
> eventually fade away as Eudora has.

thanks Brian.. I remain uncertain which way to go...Steve


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