[CLUE-Tech] IMAP vs POP

[Mike Staver]

Angelo - in this case, you need to do something, and that's edit your 
.mailboxlist file in your home directory.  With RedHat anyhow, that's 
the case.  You edit that file and tell it which folders IMAP should be 
picking up.  I couldn't get by without IMAP these days - I've been using 
it for 5 years now flawlessly - and I'm always shocked when I find other 
"computer people" that have either never tried it or didn't get it to 
work right when they did try it.  I'm always willing to help these 
people because I find it a lot easier than pop3 to manage because all my 
messages are on the server (where they get reguarly backed up) vs on my 
machine where I could lose them with a drive crash.  Also, checking mail 
from multiple locations - I find IMAP a must have feature.  I use 
Mozilla and Thunderbird to check my mail - and I've found one thing out 
- Mozilla seriously sucks with it's IMAP implemenation because it 
doesn't work right.  To be specific, sometimes, and I stress sometimes, 
even if you have the options checked for Mozilla to "remove immediately" 
your messages after you delete them, it leaves them on the server.  This 
happens for me when I connect to the exchange server I have imap on and 
the RedHat/Sendmail/IMAP box I have mail on.  Thunderbird however is 
awesome - it works correcly with IMAP and also allows me to cleanly 
compose email, where Mozilla insists on using these stupid blue lines 
instead of the > marks when I reply to a message.

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> IMAP on the other hand does something by putting folders in your home 
> directory either in mbox format or some other combination.  Whenever I 
> use IMAP on mozilla, I immediately get non-existant folders like 
> INBOX.Drafts and other weird stuff, plus a "subdirectory" of folders 
> called mail that contains stuff like a draft folder too... it's pretty 
> weird.


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                                 -Mike Staver
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