[geeks] personal mail handling

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 04:56 , Jon Still wrote:

> I like the idea of IMAP in theory.  However I've found that it's 
> practically unusable unless you have a semi-decent connection.  My 56K 
> modem just doesn't cut it, especially when Apple's Mail app is trying 
> to cache the remote folders.  In my case I actually lost a fair amount 
> of mail through this unfortunately.  My current solution is to download 
> mail to my iBook via POP3 (using stunnel to SSL-wrap it) and 
> occasionally (say, daily), to tar/scp the mail folders to a local 
> server.

You know that you can turn the caching off, right?

-Pete