At 8:55 AM -0700 7/13/00, Steven M. Klass wrote:
>Hello all
>
> Sorry to tread on holy ground, but which is better. Some
>company info.. Only a few of us travel, most of us want to remotely
>log in, and see if we have any mail. Everyone accesses mail locally
>at work - obviously..
They serve different purposes. and it's not an either/or proposition.
IMAP allows you to keep and manipulate the mail on the server, while
POP will always drag a copy to the client machine (although it might
also be set to "leave mail on server".). Which you want depends on
circumstances. Reading mail using IMAP (like I'm doing right now) can
be a little slow over a slow link if you have it set up to not bring
the entire text of the message over until you need it. But with
IMAP, you can control the same mail store from wherever you are.
IMAP is more flexible, and that's why I'm using it, but I still have
POP around for my Newton and my old Powerbook, for which IMAP clients
aren't available (or are technically available but don't work).
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Steven M. Klass
>Systems Administrator
>
>Andigilog Inc.
>7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
>Chandler, AZ 85226
>Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18
>Fax: 602-940-4255
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.andigilog.com/
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