Re: Mail

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

If you use IMAP for mail (regardless of where, provided they do IMAP) 
then all your mail is stored on the server, even when you make other 
folders. Then if you buy a new computer all your mail magically shows 
up. I *love* IMAP. I just had a drive crash and I lost 0% of my mail.

Michael

On Nov 4, 2003, at 4:05 PM, Thomas Droege wrote:

> Windows again scored and wiped out my mail.  Fortunately, Earthlink 
> keeps my address book on their web site, so I did not lose it.  Just 
> my archive of mail.  Sigh!
>  
> This again leads me to plead for suggestions for a better mail 
> server.  My most critical requirement is that it have a built in way 
> to back up the mail archive.  Rob had a suggestion which is of course 
> lost with the archive.  At the time it would not run on my machine 
> which was running Mandrake 9.0.  I now have several machines running 
> 9.1 and have 9.2 on the way. 
>  
> I have left the Earthlink message on my signature line below because 
> they have been really helpful.  Further, their mail spam blocker and 
> other features work great.  It is just that they do not have a good 
> backup scheme.  So Windows was able to get me.  Sigh!