Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net
<mailto:dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net>> wrote:
On 6/12/2014 6:33 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, John C Klensin
<john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com <mailto:john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
...
> (2) One of those changes --support for remote body parts-- was
> incorporated into MIME in its very first version and contains
> most of the mechanism needed to support what I understand PHB is
> recommending for PUSH-PULL-PULL. It has been implemented in
> several places but has gotten very little traction in the mail
> sending and receiving community. IMO, it ought to be incumbent
> on anyone proposing a different "get notification, then retrieve
> mail from server" model explain why their ideas will be more
> successful than that 20-odd-year-old MIME mechanism.
>
> In a word - WebMail.
This is a classic confusion between software implementation and
operation, vesus networking architecture.
Webmail is nothing more than a particular style of user interface,
integrated into the operations of a particular service.
It is the mode used by the majority of mail users today. Which makes
it rather more than just technology from a deployment point of view.
That's almost certainly not true, or it's certainly highly questionable.
Two words:
1. Outlook
2. Smartphones
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra