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(Unverified)Jul 12th 2007 11:44PM
I have done tech support at a web host and there is a big gotcha to this hack, since its success revolves around a user's own hosted email.
IMAP can be painfully slow on cheap/shared hosting. IMAP doesn't scale well either, meaning the bigger the IMAP mailbox, the slower IMAP send/receive gets. Since the hack is recommending the use of IMAP on a potentially 2+ GB mailbox and most web hosts consider a mailbox that's 1/5 that size to be large, that's a major consideration.
IMAP also exacts a heavy toll on server resources that is similarly proportional to the speed. If your drain on the server starts affecting other users on the box, it's very likely that the use of this technique with a large email box will get your hosting account booted off of a shared host.