On 8/11/05, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
initial-rrhea again. What advantages would one have using "IMAP"
over a VPN.
Mike Lieman wrote:
IMAP. Email protocol, where the mailboxes reside on the server, ( vs.
POP, where it's all downloaded to the client.)
Just to give Kevin Toppenberg a complete picture: IMAP has some added
features over POP, but you *can* also treat imap mail just like pop
mail, fetching and dumping it to your local box.
You could run IMAP over a vpn, and avoid having to setup IMAP/TLS and
SSL on the server.
For non-vpn, you could do a fetch-and-dump over ssl (eg: with
fetchmail -ssl, using proto IMAP (instead of proto POP). That is
pretty much a no-brainer on the client end, though configuring the
server for IMAP/SSL is usually a bit harder, or it was last time I had
a look).
PJ
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