On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

On 10/31/2011 07:17 PM, david@lang.hm wrote:

quoted

what IMAP servers have you used? I find that with a good IMAP server I
can get away with _very_ little processing power in the client and get
good performance (I still am using pine, but with a cyrus IMAP server)

there are a bunch of IMAP servers out there that are horrible (and even
more IMAP clients that are really doing POP and storing everything
locally, just using the IMAP protocol)

Last I checked if you used pine against an IMAP server it did absolutely
no caching, in which case you're of course screwed.

my biggest gripe with most IMAP clients is that they try so hard to cache 
everything locally that you may as well just copy the mail locally to 
begin with...

David Lang

I use IMAP on my phone, and with Thunderpants... I mean Thunderbird...
and it works quite nicely.

	-hpa