Subject: Re: POP client???

From: Joe Brennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 14:57:11 EST

Actually the longer range plan is to split mailhub, and so at that
point we can go back to IMAP.  One thing is that PC clients will
continue to grow in popularity, with our campus network reaching more
and more rooms, so we won't have the level of control over user
choices that we do now where a great majority still read mail on our
hosts, and we will have to make IMAP work no matter what.  IMAP does
have many advantages.

The lesson is to be sure you distribute the IMAP load if it is a big
installation.

Joseph Brennan     Academic Information Systems
                   Columbia University in the City of New York
                   [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Leslie Mikesell)
Date: 19 Feb 1995 22:33:15 -0600

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mark Crispin  <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> Out of 45,000 accounts you *must* have a few people who travel to places
>> where it is at least a long distance call to get an internet connection.
>> How do you handle the people who want to quickly download their mailbox
>> to their notebook machine and work offline?
>
>I've done it.  It's a little more manual than people of clients such as 
>Eudora are used to, but it is doable now.
>
>In Pine, that is simply an aggregate save to a local file on the notebook
>machine.  Not very automatic, so we don't advertise Pine as an "off-line
>client"; you actually have to type 4 characters plus a file name. 

Seems like something that would be easy to automate if you already
have the capability of handling local files.

>Generally, I prefer to spring for the long distance phone call unless I'm 
>in a airplane (or I can use our INWATS).

Somebody has to pay for the wats access, and there is always the case
where you want to grab your mailbox as you leave so you can read
it offline on the plane.  A UQWK/SOUP sort of intermediate batch
file would be nice.  There are other programs to use that method,
but then you have to change interfaces when you connect back to
the network.

Les Mikesell
  [email-masked]