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Re: Mail


Yes, IMAP.  Question for Tom is does he want to run his own
IMAP server?  Someone who is _very_ carful or running an large
data center would run multiple redundent IMAP/POP3 servers

How may "nines" of reliability are needed .99 is cheap but
6 or 8 nines starts to cost a bit.

--- Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net> wrote:
> 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!
> >  

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