is disconnected imap mandatory?

[Martin Konold]

Am Donnerstag 11 August 2005 16:22 schrieb Andreas Hasenack:

Hi,

> I read here and there that one should use disconnected imap in kmail
> when accessing a kolab imap server. 

Yes it is mandatory.

> Can somebody explain the reasoning 
> behind this?

dIMAP is very efficient and provides offline capabilities.

> If "connected" imap us used instead, what are the bad 
> things that (could) happen?

It simply does not work as it should.

IMHO at some point in the future dIMAP and online imap kioslaves should be 
merged.

Regards,
-- martin

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