Imap is a protocol just as pop3 is. If you use pop3 mail is taken off the server
and stored on your machine that you use to check mail. Now if you use Imap you
can then store or leave you mail on the server and wherever you go you just
access the server and you mail is there. With Pop3 you have to haul your machine
to the bush if you want to reference an old message as its on personal machine
as opposed to the server.
Outlook and Mozilla et al, are designed for pop3 as well as Imap. I think that
pop is pretty much on its way to being dead and Imap will take over. You can do
interesting things with Imap. You may want to do abit more research before you
decide on pop3 or imap. I would suggest imap.
Cheers,
Aly.
daniel wrote:
> ok
> you've confused me already
> is imap the same as pop3?
> what are they?
> why the different names?
> aren't most email clients (outlook express etc) designed for pop3?
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: pop3 server
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>
> | On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 00:07, daniel wrote:
> | > i'm experimenting with compiling and configuring sendmail from source
> and i
> | > think i've actually got it working... problem is, i still can't grab my
> mail
> | > off my linux box from another machine. pop3 is needed for this right?
> | >
> | > what software is everyone's favourite? all i've found is qpopper but
> | > something tells me it's not the only one out there... any suggestions as
> to
> | > software packages and/or security suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
> |
> | I use imap-2001a-10 (this comes with RH as standard, this version is for
> | Rh 7.3 ) and supports pop3,pop2 and imap.
> |
> | Mark
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