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From: Chris Ridd on 28 Feb 2010 02:08
On 2010-02-27 22:44:43 +0000, Tim Hodgson said:

> I'm finally getting round to sorting out email on the iPhone, which I've
> been putting off because all my accounts are POP, and I thought I'd have
> to move everything to IMAP.
>
> Then I saw the following in CTM's manual:
>
> "Additionally, PowerMail has been found to coexist well with iPhone
> mail; a simple strategy for this coexistence is to use PowerMail's
> strenghts in managing and searching mail received using the POP3
> protocol, while using the iPhone with IMAP to peek into the the same
> e-mail account's Inbox. This way, all e-mail already fetched by
> PowerMail will not need to be downloaded on the iPhone, while
> iPhone-read mail will indeed get fetched, stored and indexed in parallel
> by PowerMail.
>
> - which completely confused me; are they saying you can have an account
> set up as both POP and IMAP?

Yes, but you have to bear in mind that the IMAP client's going to be
somewhat confused when the POP client deletes all the mail behind its
back.

CTM's advice sounds a bit iffy to me. Presumably they're not going to
add IMAP to PowerMail so this is pretty much the only thing they can
say.
--
Chris

From: D.M. Procida on 28 Feb 2010 05:31
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> CTM's advice sounds a bit iffy to me. Presumably they're not going to
> add IMAP to PowerMail so this is pretty much the only thing they can
> say.

PowerMail does have IMAP support.

It's nowhere near as good as its POP3 support though, and not good
enough for my purposes.

At the moment I am in the annoying situation of having to use Mail for
my work email, and I haven't used such a lousy email client for about 12
years.

Daniele
From: Peter Ceresole on 28 Feb 2010 06:38
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> At the moment I am in the annoying situation of having to use Mail for
> my work email, and I haven't used such a lousy email client for about 12
> years.

Oh dear.

What's really bad about it?

I'm still using Eudora with POP3, and it's quite superb, solid as a
rock, and easy to use (the way Anne and I use it) with two networked
Macs.

But there's a general agreement that it's not got a very good IMAP
implementation, I failed to get it to use POP3 with gmail on dialup-
when we were moving house- and some time or other, although it works
well with 10.5 (from experience) and 10.6 (from what I read) it's bound
to break with new Mac OSs. So I was thinking in terms of Mail. Not a
good idea then?
--
Peter
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