[CLUE-Tech] IMAP vs POP

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Fri Jun 4 21:23:28 MDT 2004


On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:00:12 -0600
Jeff Cann <j.cann at isuma.org> wrote:

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

But in Sylpheed, there's an option under the POP3 settings for removing
messages after retrieval. I have it checked, and I admit I've never tried
unchecking it and seeing what happens.

jed
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