Re: Email client programs

[Curtis Vaughan]

But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3?  I mean each 
time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and 
what's on your computer.   What would be best is a solution that just 
says, "I don't care what you have or don't have, here are some new 
messages. Take them. "  And once the client has received a message it 
is marked as received on the server.

Curtis Vaughan

On 27 Jan, 2004, at 22:13, Alvin Oga wrote:

hi ya curtis

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote:

I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a 
question
like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the
answer to this question.

Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are rather shaky,
we would like them to pull mail in a way whereby once they've received
a message it is considered downloaded.  Earlier we were using ccMail
(Lotus) which did just that.  But now we had them switch over to
Outlook Express. In the case of Outlook Express,  however, let's say
they received 3 letters and then the line broke.  Well, when they
reconnect they would have to get those 3 letters again, prior to going
on and getting the rest.  Maybe this is just the way POP3 works.  Or 
is
there a mail client program that acts otherwise?  i.e., Mozilla, etc.?
tell your "client" app to use secure imap instead of  pop3
        - most client apps support imap vs pop3
c ya
alvin


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