[X4U] Can Apple's Mail pick up GMail?

[Andrew Lynch]

Hi Ed,
   You are probably right.  I personally only have faith in my own  
backups, but I know a surprising number of bright people who are  
amazingly lax about their backups.

-Drew

On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Andrew T. Lynch wrote:
>
>>
>>> From the referenced website:
>>
>> "IMAP is a good choice for people who need access to their e-mail  
>> from home, the office, the road, and anywhere else. If you were to  
>> check your e-mail from three different computers via IMAP, all  
>> three of those computers, and the e-mail server, would contain all  
>> of your e-mail. If you chose to delete a message from computer A,  
>> it would also be removed from computer B, computer C, and the e- 
>> mail server."
>>
>> So, if you access your email from more than one client, IMAP keeps  
>> it in synch.  POP does not.  If you access your email from only one  
>> client, IMAP has little if any benefit.
>>
>> The mail is kept on the server, which can fill up, but so can your  
>> home machine.  And, with IMAP you always have the choice of moving  
>> messages off the server into a folder "On My Mac", much as POP  
>> does.  The server also may have a better backup strategy than your  
>> home machine.
>>
>> I access my email using Mail.app from a laptop and two desktops.  I  
>> also access it from my work PC using a web browser.  I need IMAP.   
>> If I only acessed my email from my home machine, I might use POP.
>>
>> -Drew
>>
> Drew :
>
> Good description clear and concise thanks.
>
> One question that I do have  is though are you depending on the  
> server site as being able to back up/restore email? I would think  
> this is an issue no matter which method you use. With POP its up to  
> you to do backup and it has to be consistent (example every morning  
> at 3 AM) At some sites I have heard that they do NOT back up the  
> server as it is to volatile.
>
> Ed
>
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