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Ian Zimmerman itz at very.loosely.org
Fri Dec 14 17:20:04 UTC 2018


On 2018-12-13 13:05, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:

> Whether to use IMAP at all -- well, one reason to use IMAP, even if
> you have direct access to the mail files, is so you can use any mail
> reader, not just one. When various mail readers read and write files
> directly, even file formats that are supposedly the same, the mail
> readers may not do it compatibly with each other. That's especially
> true of mbox, which is actually many related file formats, not just
> one.
> 
> Also, IMAP allows concurrent access. Direct access to files by a mail
> reader many or may not implement concurrent access.

I copy message files from the new/ part of my spool on the server to my
local box for reading.  Since this is just a file copy the lock-freedom
of the maildir format avoids any concurrency problems.

I agree that there are good reasons to use IMAP, but none of them seem
to apply to me :)

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