Asian Potato Foot Salad
MS Outlook 2010 Beta automatically configures email accounts as IMAP. Doing so results in too much drag/lag due to folders being synchronized. Rather than accept this, I tried setting my accounts to POP3.
Can’t do it in the account settings in 2010, they’re greyed out once set up.
After deleting one IMAP account I manually re-entered the account setting up for POP3 from the start, and having it send new messages directly to the Outlook data file as I’ve done in prior versions of Outlook.
Rather than my computer hang at times when synchronizing, the POP3 does what it did in prior versions.
IMAP might be great for some, but most bloggers continue to use Outlook due to integration of tools. They need POP3, not IMAP.
This is something that either Microsoft ignored in planning or blatantly chose…in my humble opinion.
What’s worse, millions of people in the next year will all by synchronizing their email probably every 30 minutes. The amount of traffic on the internet that will be wasted by everyone using IMAP, especially during peak periods, isn’t green.
It’s disgusting. It’s wasteful. And it’s not what’s necessary.
Rather than create an application that duplicates existing services, they could have incorporated setting up automatic configuation to web portals such as Squirrelmail for self hosted accounts or Gmail’s website as a page inside Outlook.
Instead, IMAP in Outlook can take up to three times longer than Gmail’s web page can load…let alone switching folders.
…and that’s on a computer that’s a month out of the box.
….. and four toes to rule them all ……. we must keep our potato footprint as small as possible ……….
I’d ask you to pass the dressing, but already stuffed I have no flavor for more of Bill’s jam.