[CLUE-Tech] IMAP vs POP

[Jeff Cann]

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On Thursday 03 June 2004 9:10 pm, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> I have been wondering if I should try IMAP again.  

The main benefit of IMAP is that your email remains on the mail server [even 
after you read it].  So, you can connect from many different email clients 
(e.g., Mozilla, KMail, web mail) and still have your email available.  Your 
mail folders also are on the server, so when you copy an email from your 
INBOX to another mail folder, you are moving it on the server, not your 
workstation.

POP downloads messages from the server onto the client machine.  So, those 
messages are available only to the client that downloaded them.

Jeff
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