On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:06:59 +0100 (BST) Nancy McGough
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On 10 Apr 2003 Jim Correia (jim(_dot_)correia(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com) wrote:
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:09 PM, Andrew Edelstein wrote:
Every IMAP client I've ever used would check any folder/s I
want for new mail. All you have to do is tell your MUA to
"subscribe" to the folders you want checked. (Or rather, tell
you rserver you are subscribed to the folder. Any IMAP client
that connects to that account after that will check all your
subscribed folders.)
What IMAP clients have you used?
I'm also curious to hear what IMAP clients you've used Andrew...
For my IMAP page (see my sig), I'm always curious to hear about
good IMAP clients, especially ones that are good at checking for
new messages. Other things that come into play here are
* Are you running your IMAP client(s) on a remote system (e.g.,
in an ssh window or in a web browser) or on your local computer?
* How fast is the connection from the machine your
IMAP client is on to the various IMAP servers?
* How many IMAP servers do you connect to?
* How many mailboxes on the various IMAP servers do you check?
This doesn't help you much Nancy but others may want to check out the
latest builds of Mahogany for linux and Win32 at
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/.
I'm currently only using the win32 version at work because I'm stuck on a
winbox here but it has come a LONG way. I was using the squirrelmail client
I have set up on my home server (the only IMAP server I acess) but it's
editor was really ticking me off. Over-aggressive at cleaning up whitespace
to the point of completely reformatting sent messages.
All the Win32 clients I tried previously were really bad. IMAP seemed to be
an afterthought that was poorly implemented. Most don't seem to know how to
find out the server capabilities and use them. They seem to want to just
download all the messages in all the folders you subscribe to and handle
them locally just like using a POP3 client with "leave a copy on server"
enabled.
I connect to my single courier-IMAP server on my home machine. T-1 at work
and cable at home (400kb up 2500kb down speed). I have 6 or 7 email
addresses (identities) that I use and almost 200 folders on the server.
Here at work I subscribe to 80 of the folders but there are only about 6
that have mail coming in REGULARLY that I want to keep track of.
Mahogany polls the INBOX by default. I'm set up so no mail goes to INBOX
because some of the clients I tested get upset when you have a folder that
has both messages AND subfolders. That works fine with Mahogany.
You can set each subfolder to be polled at a regular interval individually
in the folder properties. You can also assign which "identity" should be
associated with each folder. So, my reply to this message is sent using my
'debuser' account automatically. I always had to remember to select the
proper account in Squirrelmail.
It has the folders listed in the tree as "folder (100,1)" Total messages in
the folder plus total NEW messages in the folder. If there's a folder that
you don't have set up for scheduled monitoring you can always right click
and have its status updated. Or, if you want a whole tree updated
occasionally just highlight the INBOX for that tree and click the "Folder"
menu at the top of the screen and select "Update subtree...".
Mahogany uses server side sorting and threading so it opens folders quite
quickly with a minimum of data transfer.
So far I'm VERY impressed. So far my only problem is that there is an
option in the individual folder preferences to OPEN the folder at startup.
I misunderstood that to mean scan it's status and managed to crash it
repeatedly as it tried to open 10 or 12 folders with several hundred
messages in each -- each in a separate window -- at startup. I had to run
the uninstall then go manually delete all traces of Mahogany from the
Windows registry (uninstall didn't handle that -- poor design). Then
re-install and start from scratch.
G
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