[Kroupware] Automatic server discovery

[Steffen Hansen]

* Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith@benshaw.com> [Sep 26. 2002 02:24]:
> > IIRC there are three modes you can run IMAP with: online mode, which
> > does what it obviously says, offline mode, similar to POP3 (fetch all
> > messages, then delete + expunge them on the server), and disconnected
> > mode (fetch all messages, but do not delete and expunge them). What
> > you mean, is disconnected mode, but don't mind: this is a part of
> > IMAP that is not really well known, even to IMAP admins (neither to
> > users :-)).
> 
> Personally I loved the third IMAP mode mentioned (outlook express used it, and 
> used the same idea for NNTP too) -- any message you've read is cached locally 
> so if you are disconnected you can still get at them.

That's exactly what I'm working on for KMail right now :)

wkr.
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Steffen Hansen

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