IMAP?

[Paul Wiener]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:36:26 +0200 (CDT), Peter Lindeman wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:29:13 -0400 (EDT), Norm wrote:
>
>>>Well, we are agreed on that then.
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>     It's really nice if (like me) you access your mail from several
>>locations using multiple machines.
>
>What's the difference then between POP3 and IMAP ?
>
>Peter

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.

-- 
"Paul Wiener" <paulish@paulish.com>