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Indexing is no longer optional, but necessary. And once you have that, IMAP just becomes an unnecessary intermediary. Why go through IMAP when you can read the
by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Indexing is no longer optional, but necessary. And once you have that, IMAP just becomes an unnecessary intermediary. Why go through IMAP when you can read the mail directly from the underlying Maildir?
* If you just want to download some mails, there is the much simpler POP3
* If you want to access your mail remotely in a convenient way, there is webmail
* If you want to do scripting, or advanced manual operations on your mail store, there are terminal tools
IMAP can do all three but is a lousy substitute and holding you back.
- upofadown 5y agoYou can do the indexing of the messages as they are seen from IMAP. For encrypted messages you have to do that anyway with an extra decryption step. Having a local mail spool is great, but email has to be accessible from a lots of different devices in lots of different ways.
- derekzhouzhen 5y ago> email has to be accessible from a lots of different devices in lots of different ways. That's exactly the point of having your own email server in the cloud with all your mails, so all of your devices can access the vast data through a common webmail interface, without downloading anything in advance.