Ximian Evolution question

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:14, Keith Mastin wrote:

> I said difficult, not impossible. :) I have one squirrelmail setup that
> fetches mail from pop3 servers, and it wasn't that big of a hack. They're
> working on the same for hotmail, yahoo, etc. at the moment. SM needs IMAP
> to work though.

That's cool, hadn't noticed a pop plugin.

> For a web-enabled pop client to work, the client would need to dl the mail
> from the pop3 servers and distribute from a central location. I don't see
> the advantage.

No advantage, I much prefer IMAP.  Just saying that a pop client is easier to 
write than an imap client, granted the task of retrieving messages is a 
pretty small part of a total email client.

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