-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 07:38:57AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] > I'm sort of moving OT, but want to ask: presumably you think IMAP is > preferable to POP3--what makes you say that (in general)? POP3 is only useful if you plan to always get the whole mail batch from the server and delete it there. IMAP gives you much more flexibility (and besides it has this IDLE feature, where the client can keep the connection open and get notified -- i.e. instant mail delivery without polling). I know, with pop3 you can theoretically leave your mail at the server, but... the protocol makes it very difficult to see that you don't download mails twice, or many times. > It's been a long time since i chose to use pop3 instead of imap--in fact, > iirc, imap became an option later, and my decision was more whether to stick > with POP3 or switch to imap. If it's working for you, don't touch it. For what it was conceived, POP3 is fine! > I prefer pop3 because it (in most cases, unless set otherwise or dealing with > gmail) deletes the email from the email server, which is what I prefer. You can do that with IMAP too. > I presume imap gives you an option to delete mail from the server? Yes. What's nifty is -- you can decide *when* to delete things (this way, I try to keep mails around in the server for one extra round, to allow for my client to have done a backup in the meantime). > I recognize that leaving email on the server can make it easier to access > your > email from multiple devices, but (1) I rarely have that need (maybe not in > the > last 10 years), and (2), when I do, I can set pop3 to leave email on the > server (but, iirc, I typically set my "main" email device to delete it from > the server--iirc, if I didn't, I'd keep getting the same emails sent to me > over and over--but maybe I'm not remembering that correctly. Heh. Welcome to POP3 and its mysterious UIDLs :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlm6csQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZOtACfbOUVoxdjKqSgBz66ZBch0JOp NW8Anj+TDPsi1pCbCkrUNHBY6ZCWxggN =TMz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
