On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:50, Micha Feigin wrote: > You're mixing two levels of handling here. > > Exim is a mail transfers agent. It handles only the smtp protocol (and > encripted friends). It basically acts as the post office. It recieves your > envelope and delivers it to the specified mail box. If also acts as the > mailbox for this purpose. It's only job is to transfer mail from point A to > point B. > > pop3, imap and webmail are readers, not mail transporters. > > pop3 is basically the household dog that fetches the mail for you from your > mailbox so that you can read it. It only handles the mailbox to your house > part (and not the other way). Nothing to do with transporting mail. > > Imap is a smart dog with a xerox machine. It goes to the mailbox, makes > writes down what mail you have and tells you. You then tell it what mail > you actually want to read and it runs over to the mailbox again and makes a > copy. You then tell it what mail it's ok to pee on and what mail you want > to leave around. > > webmail is somewhat like having your dog hold up the mail for you near the > mailbox and you looking at it through binoculars. > > Thats about it, hope I didn't lose you along the way
Wow! That analogy is simply superb! Now we have to simply start naming our dogs POP, IMAP etc., just like one of the DDs Amaya Rodrigo ( http://amayita.livejournal.com/55264.html ) named her kittens Vi and Emacs :-) raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Click to receive help removing your credit card debt http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJkiZuy0agipVWlWdinqYyiSmKw/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
