Pop3

[Jeremy Fowler]

POP3 is used mainly to download all your email to a local mailbox for
reading. Usually it downloads all your email and then removes everything
from your mailbox on the server.

IMAP is used to store all your email on the server and then you connect
with an IMAP client to the server to read your email. Messages in your
mailbox don't get deleted until you delete them from your client.
Everything is stored on the server and there usually isn't a local
mailbox.

However, both have overlapping features and can sometimes be configured
to mimic each other. Reading your mail with POP3 without downloading
(POP3 checks), and storing a local copy of your IMAP mailbox for caching
purposes (offline viewing).

-Jeremy 

Jeremy Fowler
801 W. 47th St, Suite 500
Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone: (816) 842-8222
Fax: (816) 842-3081
jfowler at westrope.com

>>> "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> 04/04/02 09:25AM >>>

From:	Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
Sent:	Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:25 AM
To:	<kclug at kclug.org>
Subject:	RE: Pop3
Priority:	Normal

Not to divert the topic, but this has been bugging me for a while.

Why pop3? Or why IMAP?
Which one to use and why?
I really haven't seen any sane discussions on the subject.

An enquiring mind wants to know,
Brian