Subject: Re: NNCP proxy for Internet mail providers?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:33:37 +0000

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 08:46:29PM -0700, Koushik Roy wrote:
> I'm curious, why not just cooperate with the local MDA? Is this
> specifically to avoid having a local mail daemon altogether?
> 
> (Apologies if this mail gets mangled, I'm trying to switch away from
> digest mode which is making it inconvenient to directly reply.)
> 
> - Koushik
The use case is basically "IMAP server as remote backups" where even if
your laptop gets run over by a truck you can still re-download all your
mail from the server.  This is half the reason many people use webmail
and other public IMAP/SMTP providers, so it makes sense to allow it as a
workflow.