[kwlug-disc] Does anyone want to take over Thunderbird?

[Raymond Chen]

Yes, I agreed on that part about IMAP. That's the best standard we have
right now for email protocol. Maybe we can put it this way, simply having a
IMAP service running and a good client (cross-platform maybe) is not
enough. In the perspective of an end user, we need other important features
like anti-spam, anti-phishing even contact backup and duplicate merging...
They are not part of the IMAP protocol, and shouldn't be. But still, they
are valuable. I think Gmail or WebMail can do those things pretty well.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:

> > On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Gmail has a 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab on its settings. And I found
> my IMAP is enabled. Maybe I did it long time ago. I think both IMAP and POP
> are obsolete and against productivity, standard or not. I'm disabling the
> IMAP and see what happens...
>
> I agree with you on POP, but if not IMAP, then what do you propose for an
> open standard for MUA mail retrieval?
>
> -A.
>
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