[Leica] OT mail program help please

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

Nice summary, as one would expect from someone to whom we owe so much of 
our present day internet.  2 things:

1. you can pop and configure to leave mail on the server, I do this for 
my sidekick3 and thunderbird, I use mutt as my main reader and do 
deletes from mutt only.
2. I wasn't aware t-bird was an orphaned product. I thought the mozilla 
crew had split up the mozilla platform to firefox and thunderbird.  So 
the mozilla crew has thrown in the towel on email clients?
Thx
-rei
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 8:35 am, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>>>> Does such a program exist?
>>>>
>>>> If so,  what program best fills the bill?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any given mail program is architected to work best with one of these 
> methods and to work adequately with the other.
>
> 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.
>
> I have personal experience with 5 mail programs on the Mac:
>
> Apple's Mail.app
> Eudora
> Mulberry
> Thunderbird
> Entourage (this is a version of Outlook, but for the Mac)
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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-rei