But the same reasons POP3 exist is that not all users can be or wish
to be "mini-sysops." Point systems (which is what ODMR is) can be
popular, but more especially when the user became less dependent on
having any kind of "server" software install, like a QWK mail reader
or POP3/IMAP/NEWS readers or just web browser. You were able to roam
around. It is not at all odd that eventually heavy users do
eventually install a point system of some sort without the need to
become full time servers.
I just noting by having a "mini-server" with an ODMR client, just
shifts the "Keep Mail Over Server" to the mini server presuming the
user will be using a Mail Reader that picks up mail from his mini server.
thanks
Tony Finch wrote:
On 5 Sep 2011, at 18:59, Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)santronics(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
ODMR is better than POP in retaining the message envelope and not having the "keep
mail on server" loophole.
I'm not quite seeing this if the comparison is with POP. Can you elaborate?
POP has been abused for last-hop delivery to intermittently connected hosts,
e.g. fetchmail, Microsoft SBS, the envelope-in-headers conventions that John
Levine mentioned, et cetera ad nauseam. ODMR would have been a much better
choice if it had been available five years earlier...
Also I don't like POP as an MUA protocol in the current world of plentiful
server storage, multiple clients per user, and multiple mailboxes per account.
It leads to too many accidentally deleted inboxes.