On 6/10/02 3:21 PM, "Mr Tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And since the topic has come up in this thread... my accounts are all POP > rather than IMAP. This is largely through almost total ignorance of what is > different about IMAP and what it's advantages or disadvantages are. Perhaps > some kind-hearted soul could outline the differences or point me towards a > useful online reference source.
I'm not sure how easy it will be for you to find an inexpensive IMAP ISP in Britain with a large allocation of server space. Probably most people using IMAP for their main email accounts are doing so with their company's or university's IMAP server. IMAP is great if you move around or have more than one location (home and work, for example). All messages are kept on the server, although you can archive them periodically to local folders. The best advantage is for Sent Mail - there's just the one repository, no matter where you're writing from. So when you get home, you can still access a message you sent from work. (With POP, the best you can do is BCC yourself, which puts it into the wrong folder on both machines when it arrives.) Even for received messages, it's nice not to have to download it again on the second machine, never have to calculate which machine should leave messages on server, and which not. BUT: A free IMAP like mac.com only gives you 5 MB. That's piddly. (Try it out -it's free, You have to set Advanced Sending Options to authenticate SMTP with same settings.) My university gives me 80 MB, which is generous. I keep all these mailing lists on my ISP's POP account because I don't need to keep them forever (I delete them every few weeks) and they would hog the IMAP server. I use my personal and work nail from my university account on IMAP, and I love it. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
