[Leica] OT mail program help please

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

For all of my forum mails, I use gmail at Google so the threads will stay
together. It is also very searchable. All non-forum stuff goes to Entourage
(the Outlook of Macs).

On Nov 21, 2007 9:55 AM, <grduprey@mchsi.com> wrote:

> Glad this topic came up.  I am contemplating the puchase of a Mac Laptop
> this weekend in Chicago and I am curiouse of what I need to change with my
> internet provider if anythng.  Especially the e-mail function.  This is my
> first Mac computer and am a bit unsure how the transition will go.
>
> gene
>
>
> -------------- Original message from Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>:
> --------------
>
>
> > Nice summary, as one would expect from someone to whom we owe so much of
> > our present day internet. 2 things:
> >
> > 1. you can pop and configure to leave mail on the server, I do this for
> > my sidekick3 and thunderbird, I use mutt as my main reader and do
> > deletes from mutt only.
> > 2. I wasn't aware t-bird was an orphaned product. I thought the mozilla
> > crew had split up the mozilla platform to firefox and thunderbird. So
> > the mozilla crew has thrown in the towel on email clients?
> > Thx
> > -rei
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 8:35 am, Brian Reid wrote:
> > >
> > >>>> Does such a program exist?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If so, what program best fills the bill?
> > >
> > > There are two radically different ways that a mail program can
> operate.
> > > In the first way, it keeps all of the mail locally on your computer,
> > > and interacts with the server only for the purpose of getting new mail
> > > and sending outgoing mail. In the second way, it keeps all of the mail
> > > on the server, and interacts with the server for everything that it
> > > does.
> > >
> > > If you will be reading your mail from more than one location, or from
> > > both regular mail and webmail, then you usually benefit from having
> the
> > > mail live on the server. (Plus, servers customarily have more reliable
> > > backups). If searching your mail is a primary concern, or if you want
> > > to be able to review old mail when you are not online, then you
> usually
> > > benefit from having the mail live on your computer.
> > >
> > > The usual nicknames for these two modes of operation are POP and IMAP.
> > > If your mail client is configured to use POP, it will keep the mail
> > > locally. If it is configured to use IMAP (or Microsoft's MAPI), it
> will
> > > keep the mail on the server.
> > >
> > > Any given mail program is architected to work best with one of these
> > > methods and to work adequately with the other.
> > >
> > > Apple's Mail program seems to have been designed to work best with
> IMAP
> > > -- the "leave the mail on the server" mode. I'm guessing the way you
> > > asked your question that you are a POP (keep mail locally) user.
> > >
> > > I have personal experience with 5 mail programs on the Mac:
> > >
> > > Apple's Mail.app
> > > Eudora
> > > Mulberry
> > > Thunderbird
> > > Entourage (this is a version of Outlook, but for the Mac)
> > >
> > > You're already using Mail.app. Eudora is old and unmaintained and
> there
> > > will never be a major new release of it again. Mulberry is what I use,
> > > but it is not for everyone, and it is pretty much useless in POP mode.
> > > Entourage (from Microsoft) is the most common choice of businesses
> that
> > > use Mac OS. Thunderbird is the most common choice of computer geeks,
> > > but it, too, is now unmaintained and will eventually fade away as
> > > Eudora has.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Leica Users Group.
> > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> > -rei
> >
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>
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Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA