Balzac

Hi, this should be fixed in the latest version, let me know if not. Thanks for the feedback.

"An email app without IMAP support is no email app at all. This should be priority number one." I think many of the people who demand IMAP are confused about what the IMAP protocol provides. It is not an upgrade to POP, it is a different scheme for accessing emails, which presupposes a single server accessible at all times, and allows you to store information about which emails have been read/moved to a different folder etc and share it between multiple clients. This can be more elegant than POP if you share several computers and wish to synchronise moving messages between folders etc. As Balzac doesn't use folders, this is of limited use. I am hoping however to map flavours to custom IMAP flags at some point in the future, at which point the app will support IMAP. I am planning IMAP support for version 1.1 (the underlying library supports it so it won't be too hard to add). Many people use POP quite happily on servers which also provide IMAP - IMAP is not suitable for all situations, and if you locally cache messages becomes very similar to POP (apart from the folder synching, which as I explained is not relevant to Balzac).

Hi Phil, IMAP support will come in a future version - in fact for this Application (precisely because it doesn't use folders) I wanted to think about how best to add it, and how best to map folders on the server to flavours. If a flavour is added or removed from a message on the computer, should it affect the server at all? That kind of thing. Many people don't use IMAP and are happy with POP (I'm aware lots do as well); POP is not necessarily inferior, depends on your needs. I should have added it to the poll though... As to the exchange server, if you could give me any details that would be helpful, as that's what the beta is to try to catch. Were you just receiving mail on that account? Was there anything in the console log? Did you have any messages at all flash up? When you say hung, do you mean you got a beachball of death or it just didn't connect? Presumably it didn't crash. Did you get any messages at all? I assume you were trying to connect via POP? If you have more details you can email me (presumably not using Balzac with the Exchange Server : ). Kenny