I'd like to see message-level synchronization added... - matt_s

IMAP is there because Microsoft (and most other email apps, altho not all) refuses to treat email like individual documents, instead they roll them up into a larger database. While you can copy that database, you can't sync individual email. Therefore, email must be saved remotely so a pseudo form of synchronization can be accomplished on the client. That's what makes it so 1996.

What would be more 2006, would be the innate and integrated ability of each client machine to synchronize with another client machine - email especially. This is not likely to happen without 3rd party vendors because Microsoft and Apple want to sell you services to do this.

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Tuesday, February 07 2006 @ 06:36 AM PST

I'd like to see message-level synchronization added... - mfidiothead

This does exist in Mac OS X 10.4 - each email is a separate file, and each mail folder is a folder on the disk. Just look in the Mail folder in a user's Library folder.

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Monday, March 27 2006 @ 11:18 AM PST