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IMAP Glory

Forgot to mention in my last post that I have totally and utterly converted to IMAP for mail. I see absolutely no reason to ever go back to POP. Good timing, since at my new consulting job I have to use IMAP to work with the group server (that's another horrible story about exchange). I started my IMAP conversion with Mulberry 4.0 release for Mac. I then did get the cyrus-imapd installed on this machine using a fresh compile on the machine (no binary or port). Then, with that I just created group accounts for X and I to share all this info about the new house. I just can't get over how much better IMAP is than is POP. Unfortunately, I was bought and sold on Mulberry, excellent IMAP support plus calendars and Address Book integration and runs on just about any OS, and now they have died. Filed for bankruptcy. I was deeply disturbed initially, but I am happy I am using it. Still better than anything else for IMAP on the Mac without resulting to using commandline applications and it did convert me to IMAP. I'll get back here to document installation of cyrus-imapd on openbsd soon, enough wasting time for now.