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Usage statistics about the major mail providers in comparison to general usuage would be interesting. Some unbelievable claims have been made (even on this page). | Usage statistics about the major mail providers in comparison to general usuage would be interesting. Some unbelievable claims have been made (even on this page). | ||
:The important group of University and institutional providers is missing in the ISP listing of the [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration#Goal | Goal]] section. This would fit between "Smaller ISPs" and "Corporate employee accounts". We are talking of frequently >10000 users per institution. An easy (auto)configuration scheme would help Thunderbird's acceptance. Before comming across this page here, I had already commented in '''[[Talk:Thunderbird:Easy_Account_Setup#Creating_and_Maintaining_the_ISP_Files | Easy Account Setup]]''' with collected suggestions on how to simplify the generation of ISP files and extend the manual setup (just replace RDF by XML, or whatever the final format will be, and those statements should still be valid). --[[User:Rsx11m|Rsx11m]] 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT) | |||
== POP vs. IMAP == | == POP vs. IMAP == | ||
What do we do when the ISP offers both POP and IMAP? My vote goes for IMAP (hands-down). | What do we do when the ISP offers both POP and IMAP? My vote goes for IMAP (hands-down). | ||
:Voting for IMAP, or maybe provide an easy to understand dialog if multiple choices are available. Are there any reasons why somebody would prefer POP over IMAP? You can still work offline with IMAP, so that's not an argument. I mostly see advantages of IMAP over POP in many aspects. --[[User:Rsx11m|Rsx11m]] 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT) | |||
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Usage statistics about the major mail providers in comparison to general usuage would be interesting. Some unbelievable claims have been made (even on this page).
- The important group of University and institutional providers is missing in the ISP listing of the Goal section. This would fit between "Smaller ISPs" and "Corporate employee accounts". We are talking of frequently >10000 users per institution. An easy (auto)configuration scheme would help Thunderbird's acceptance. Before comming across this page here, I had already commented in Easy Account Setup with collected suggestions on how to simplify the generation of ISP files and extend the manual setup (just replace RDF by XML, or whatever the final format will be, and those statements should still be valid). --Rsx11m 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT)
POP vs. IMAP
What do we do when the ISP offers both POP and IMAP? My vote goes for IMAP (hands-down).
- Voting for IMAP, or maybe provide an easy to understand dialog if multiple choices are available. Are there any reasons why somebody would prefer POP over IMAP? You can still work offline with IMAP, so that's not an argument. I mostly see advantages of IMAP over POP in many aspects. --Rsx11m 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT)