[CLUE-Tech] IMAP vs POP

[Timothy Klein]

On Friday 04 June 2004 09:23 pm, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 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.
>

I used to use that feature at my former job.  When I was away from my office, 
I would set up Netscape (they used NS 4.7 at all locations) to point to my 
company POP account.  But I would set remote versions of Netscape to leave 
the messages on the server, so that I didn't end up with email scattered 
across hard drives all over the company.

It works fine.  But it is nothing like IMAP (as I understand it, I've never 
used IMAP).  Its just a flat collection of messages on the server.  No 
ability to organize messages on the server, etc, and if you access the 
messages with different mail clients, you end up with several copies of the 
same messages, IIRC.

Tim
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