Re: [exim] Exim Performance / Server Performance

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:12:34PM -0500, Edgar Lovecraft wrote:
> That all depends on the service you are going to provide to the users.
> Nearly all ISP's that I know of only offer POP3 access to the email
> INBOX. This is not unreasonable, as the clients can then use local
> storage and folders for their email needs. Private mail services for
> an organization are different, and so ar the requirements for web based
> systems such as Hotmail and the like.

The German market may be odd, but I see at least half of all email
services offering IMAP here, even for free accounts. My employer is
no exception and offers IMAP for free accounts since a couple years
now. Restricting users to POP in order to save storage is past.

Local storage, where? On your PDA? Your cell phone? The laptop? Or your
PC at home? That's the situation and I see two kinds of people: Those
who know IMAP, and use it, and those who don't and use POP at home and a
web based client anywhere else. And guess what those web based systems
use. :-)

Personally, I hate IMAP, because it is just yet another network file
system protocol. How many more specialised remote file systems do we need
until people realise that a networked Unix account with your web page,
your mailboxes, all your files and software to make use of all that is
a wonderful thing? So that's what I use, but I am hardly the average user.

Michael