Using IMAP for the list

[Derek Broughton]

lanzen wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 June 2008 18:18:05 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Of course you can use "disconnected IMAP" if you prefer, in which case
>> you get local copies of everything on your local system and synchronize
>> with the IMAP server.
> 
> I don't think you can have that in Thunderbird which is what the OP is
> using.

He is?  There was mention of Thunderbird, indeed, but the OP didn't say that
(at least in the OP...).

> Looking further that might be a bad idea if one's account is GMail's when
> tons of bytes get copied on his/hers system.
 
Yes, well, I'm not sure just how smart dIMAP is these days - I stopped using
it myself when it was still quite primitive.  You certainly don't want to
have GBs being copied across the net.
-- 
derek