IMAP?

[Steve Lamb]

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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:33:02 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>What I'm wondering is why people are changing over to IMAP. Is this
>really necessary? DOes it really do a better job than POP3?

    IMAP and POP3 are apples and oranges, really.  POP3 is a store and
forward protocol where IMAP is a complete remote access of mailboxes
protocol.  It isn't that it does anything better, it just does it different
in such a way that many people prefer it.

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