Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:15:31 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP pooping out; any BSD friendly ISP out there???? Message-ID: <p05100802b6e4e3180228@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010326105907.B86822@lpt.ens.fr> References: <200103240132.SAA05871@usr05.primenet.com> <20010325145630.H43051@lpt.ens.fr> <p05100806b6e4362fbb41@[194.78.241.123]> <20010326105907.B86822@lpt.ens.fr>
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At 10:59 AM +0200 3/26/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow that. If it's harder to get them to support
> IMAP when they support POP, it's harder for you to use IMAP.
> An IMAP server must be running at their end. You can't use IMAP on
> your mail client if they only have a POP server.
Right, but if you go looking for places that have IMAP support,
they'll almost certainly also have POP support. The converse is not
necessarily true.
> Still, I suppose a shell account is preferable, because you can access
> it even when you're travelling and don't have your own laptop with
> you.
For what he wants, a shell account is certainly required.
Everything else is on top of the shell account, so that should be the
first thing he's looking for.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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