Enough already

[Karl F. Larsen]

Thorny wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:41:32 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
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>> Thorny wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:26:05 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
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>>>>     I do like the way gmail works but the IMAP stinks! It works just
>>>> fine for a few days and then like today it almost stopped working. I
>>>> hope this will make the list.
>>>> So I am looking for something I can buy that works almost all the time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Karl, I know we are supposed to try and help people with the actual
>>> questions they ask but the problem with that is that when people are
>>> having trouble they often become frustrated and attribute the problem to
>>> a wrong cause and seek a solution based on that.
>>>
>>>       
    Here is my reason why IMAP doesn't work well with large email's. The 
IMAP principle is to send only the title of the message to me. I need to 
try and read it and then it decides to let me d/l the 8 MBytes of 
message with a .wmv file attached. This d/l period can be VERY long when 
IMAP is not working well. In fact I have tried to stop the long d/l and 
that fails too :-)

    Contrast that to the POP3 method. When it gets a email it brings the 
whole thing with any attachments to my computer. When I click to play 
the attached movie or .ppp file it is right there and starts immediatly.

    So that is the way things are with Gmail. IMAP just quits for some 
period caused by a glitch at Google. And the large emails are a real 
problem. POP3 is seldom down due to Google and it brings every email to 
my computer complete.


Karl