IMAP?

Marty Abrego pmmail@rpglink.com
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:01:26 -0700


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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:43:45 -0700, Chris Adams wrote:

>POP3 just holds messages until they've been retrieved, with no context
>information. IMAP allows you to maintain folders on the server and track
>things like read status, allowing you to have substantially the same view
>of your mailbox from any IMAP client. If you want to leave mail on the
>server for retrieval from multiple machines, IMAP is much cleaner.

Seems to me that IMAP's "advantages" are largely irrelevant, given PM
Mail's "remote control" feature.


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