is disconnected imap mandatory?

[Richard Bos]

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2005 11:45, schreef Martin Konold:
> Technically there is simply no single reason why dIMAP must be slower than
> online IMAP. Actually all online IMAP implementations I am aware of use
> local caching techniques in order to gain a speedup...

For me it's to prevent that emails are being at many systems, and using a lot 
of (unnecessary) diskspace.  I mean kolab-users does not need to be saved on 
disk for me for example, but my inbox may.  

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Richard Bos
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