On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:02:12AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > *By default* in both cases. There's nothing that actually forces you > to leave mail on an IMAP server, neither is there anything that forces > you to remove mail when you download it from a POP3 server. However > most POP3 services expect you to remove mail when you download it and > most IMAP services expect you to keep mail on the server.
it's a little more than that. pop was designed with the former in mind, imap with the latter. pop doesn't have the facilities to treat a remote mailbox the same way as a local one. you can leave the mail on the server with pop, but that's about it. it certainly doesn't allow you to store sent mail on the server, or move messages from one mailbox to another on the server. so the "leave mail on server" option that most pop-clients have is certainly not a convenient way to access your mail remotely from different locations. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
