<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 03 March 2009 22:10:35 Chris Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > OK I don't understand. You don't get 20MB of mail in a day, surely? > > Are you saying you leave all your mail on the server all the time? > > Having my mail locally is utterly crucial, so I can work offline if > > I'm on site and there's no net access. Why would you choose to leave > > it on the server? I honestly didn't know people still did that. > > > > Clearly you don't access your email from more than one machine ? No need, I have one of these modern machines that I can take with me, a laptop I think they call it ;) Anyway, enough of this, don't want mailboxes filling up with banter.. :) Mark > If > you did, then downloading your mail to that machine (i.e. using the > POP protocol) is extremely inconvenient, as once an email is > downloaded it can only be read on that machine. > Leaving your email on the server (i.e. imap) is the solution in this > case, as then the same mail is available everywhere. CHanges you make > in one place are automatically sync'ed with the server and thus > available everywhere. > > Personally, I use IMAP for this very reason. I access my email from > many different locations and machines. I don't mind getting the odd > html email from family and friends, and the odd work contact. But if > everyone on a high usage mailing list, like ubuntu, used html email it > would significantly increase the size of my mail folders. This is why > html is generally banned on most mailing lists. > > cheers Chris </body></html>