IMAP?

Peter Lindeman pmmail@rpglink.com
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:05:10 +0200 (CDT)


On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:48:18 -0700 (PDT), Paul Wiener wrote:

>>What's the difference then between POP3 and IMAP ?
>
>As far as I'm concerned, the main advantage of IMAP over POP3 is
>something I'll probably never use.
>
>IMAP lets you store your mail on the IMAP server's media. You can
>create all your special mail folders and so on, and filter you messages
>into them, and not use up any of your own disk space. Unfortunately, I
>keep about 30 Mb of old e-mail, and my ISP, who does support IMAP,
>would charge me a fortune for that much storage.

Aha. Is this then the default protocol that Exchange Server uses ? At
my work we have an Exchange server running (argh) and Outlook98 is
horrible. PMMail98 can be used but only with SMTP/POP. It is very handy
in a network to keep all mail on the server. 

Peter