Comments on: The benefits of IMAP and open: iPhone and Joyent Mail http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/ Joyent's Weblog Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Raymond Brigleb http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2391 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:13:25 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2391 My iPhone works great with Joyent’s IMAP – I love it. The only thing missing is spam protection, and it is sorely missed.

]]> By: Scott Barron http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2394 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:17:12 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2394 As David pointed out, a given IMAP implementation may or may not support keywords – which is the basis of tagging.

We’ve already been down that road with Connector. Courier’s IMAP implementation, which we use, becomes horrifically slow as the number of distinct keywords in a given mailbox increases due to the way it (Courier) stores and indexes these keywords internally. Other IMAP implementations had varying degrees of user defined keyword support, generally even more inadequate than Courier.

-Scott

]]> By: shofr http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2395 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:36:05 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2395 Slightly off topic:

My biggest issue with email in general on iPhone is the lack of client side spam filtering. I have access to my IMAP junk folder, but don’t have an automatic way of moving items there based on even simple rules.

]]> By: kael http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2396 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:09:48 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2396 Regarding tags in Thunderbird, they are not really well implemented.

The ‘foo’ tag created from client 1 can be seen from Thunderbird if it is added in the preferences pane (odd design, though) ; see ‘Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Tags’.

This solution is not very smart because it requires to know all the IMAP keywords and to add them each time a new account is configured in Thunderbird.

]]> By: Michael http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2392 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:18:48 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2392 Some phones can do both if you have the right software. My Nokia N80 does IMAP natively (tested with Joyent) and I use Roadsync by Dataviz to do MS ActiveSync for Exchange. There’s a GMail app for it too.

]]> By: David Young http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2393 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:49:00 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2393 @Frank: You’re right. However, section 2.3.2 of the RFC states that servers “MAY” (emphasis in the document) allow for non-system flags (the type that could be used as tags). It’s not a given.

Further, it doesn’t seem to me there is a way to move tag clouds between devices (even using Thunderbird 2). If I tag a given email message “foo” using Thunderbird 2 on my laptop, the “foo” tag doesn’t appear on the same email message when read using Thunderbird 2 on my desktop (as far as I can tell), let alone appear as a tag I can use for other emails.

]]> By: Frank Fischer http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2389 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:06:41 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2389 I thought IMAP support tags since ages. It’s called flags and the RFC (3501) specifies some system flags and supports user defined flags. I think that thunderbird 2 supports assigning these flags.

Regards, Frank

]]> By: Joe Van Dyk http://joyeur.com/2007/07/21/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2390 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:57:43 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/the-benefits-of-imap-and-open-iphone-and-joyent-mail/#comment-2390 Why the hell does IMAP on blackberries suck so bad?

And why the hell does the iPhone not support exchange?

Is it too much to ask for a phone to support both exchange and imap?

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