MS Office 2010 Beta: The IMAP/POP3 issue
December 4th, 2009
Plenty for everyone
I mentioned earlier in a prior post that IMAP was the default setting when letting MS Office 2010 Beta configure email accounts. Doing a bit of research after the last ‘hiccup’, I had a brainstorm.
Turns out my Gmail account settings online were set to ‘enable IMAP’ as well as the ‘enable POP’, so it’s understandable why this happened. I still am vehemently against IMAP, since Gmail itself autoarchives copies of received email…the bandwidth of syncing folders is a waste when a person ‘uses’ them locally on the same computer.
Changing the online setting cured this, I did a new ‘automatic configuaration’ of the same account…it set for POP3.
The bigger problem now is that by default most bloggers are running their sites on servers with IMAP enabled. Once MSOffice 2010 goes *GOLD*, I see a number of people facing issues when they go to purchase new laptops with it preinstalled.
They will see how long it takes to sync, they’ll be freaking out when their bandwidth gets sucked, and they will be clamoring, whining, and ranting. Laptop manufacturers will immediately develop Raging Fans, blameshift and push off owners to Microsoft, and people will be doing the same thing they did a decade ago…
…when AOL was preloaded on to computers it couldn’t identify the modem correctly during software installation.
Thank God I went into the medical profession, getting someone to buy modern office furniture rather than pay for it myself is wonderful!
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Really do not understand why there’s a photo with “salsichas” on that post!:))))
How are you?
Just dropping to say hello and tease…
I am well, Belihna. How do you take your sausage? Mustard? Pickled shredded cabbage? Some take it with catsup, I don’t believe vinegar is common like on potatoes…but it’s possible.
You are right about the time factor. Microsoft should let the people who want this configure it themselves and not burden them with these unneeded issues.
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I chalk it up to noobs not RTFMing.
Oh, MY BAD! Microsoft didn’t put this IN their manual!
IMAP is way better (and safer) than POP3. You do not have to synchronize anything on your laptop if you do not want to. Most email clients by default will delete any POP3 emails it successfully downloads, making the local copy the only copy.
Just because Gmail may autoarchive email for you doesn’t mean POP3 is better than IMAP, it just means Google decided to have a failsafe in place when people accidentally deleted their email by mistake by using POP3.
Thanks, Marco, but again the point is many people don’t have the bandwidth throughput as well as need your implying. For those that do, great…but for the rest of us people that have narrow pipes and work linear we need POP3 for what we do.
Regarding Google…it’s not a failsafe. That’s why they call it ‘archive’…and it’s a good thing to have in case emails are required to be made available in court.
Beats having to validate your own served email when the court can demand it from Google, lol.