Internet mail servers generally come in two flavors. The POP mail
systems have your client pick up mail and copy it to your local system,
removing it from your mail provider's system. The IMAP ones have your
client interact with mail on the server as you go along. So you retrieve
a lit of mail and only if you open a message does it get downloaded.
Even then it's still on the server and is only removed from the server
if you delete it. This also means that if you hit the same mail service
from another machine your mail will still be there. Nice for webmail
also. Downside with IMAP is you must be online to get your mail while
POP stores the mail on your local machine. Some mail applications let
you download mail from an IMAP server for off-line use, but I've not
played with that.
CB
Jon Cohn wrote:
WHat is the IMAP server? Gmail recently changed a couple of things...
Jon
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