[MlMt] Uh-oh. Imap just bit me...

Seebs mailmate-list at seebs.net
Wed Nov 6 13:10:29 EST 2013


On 6 Nov 2013, at 4:08, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> I'll do what I can to make this more unlikely to happen (implement 
> some of the warnings discussed with Seebs), but in most cases this 
> problem is not much different than the risk of a local corrupted (or 
> stolen) disk. The exception is, of course, if the server admin quietly 
> drops old messages and the user does not notice/know this, but I don't 
> think that would keep them in business for very long (and that goes 
> for any type of cloud service).

The main one that's affected me elsewhere is that work has an INSANELY 
tiny
message quota, so at work, I run fetchmail to a pop3 server and use a 
pop3 client.

-s


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