[Re-alpine-devel] [Alpine-info] select fails sporadically

[Matt Ackeret]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

> Correct.  [4] is basically the POP-style download-then-delete.  You may be

> surprised to know that there are still partisans of that model, and that 15

> years ago the biggest anti-IMAP effort was by those partisans.


Can't he download it locally but still keep it on the IMAP server too?

That is, the local file would be closer to a cache than 'downloading' the
email.