On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:50:53PM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > Ok, how exactly does IMAP work and differ from POP3? Is it anytyhing > like how MS Exchange works and delivers email instantly without > checking? Heck I use pop3 at home but thought of trying out IMAP but > I haven't read anything up on it or seen it live at work. > > Mike Chambers > Netlyncs It seems to me that the biggest difference is that with IMAP you can save messages to folders on the remote server. This allows you to use the remote server from multiple IMAP email clients without any loss of access to stored messages. With POP you either keep the messages locally in folders (which means you cannot access them from a secondary email client), or you have to keep them in your INBOX (which means you cannot organize you email well). HTH -- -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- Jon Lapham Extracta Mol�culas Naturais, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.extracta.com.br/ ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
