Hallo Victor, On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:38:52 -0500GMT (9-12-02, 12:38 +0100GMT, where I live), you wrote:
VBG> What is the difference between LDAP Vs POP3? LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Many current email clients use some form of LDAP database to look up email addresses. Internic and Infospace are two examples of big public look-up services built with LDAP. POP3 is short for Post Office Protocol (version 3). This is the type of communication your computer uses when it sends and receives e-mail over the Internet. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet service provider. So POP3 is a server where you collect your e-mail and LDAP is a server for e-mail addresses. Probably you meant the the difference between POP3 and IMAP, so that takes us to: IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers. So the difference between IMAP and POP3 is that with POP3 you do your message processing on your client and with IMAP it's managed around your server. That makes IMAP more suited to fast (permanent) internet connections and LANs, where POP3 is more suited to dial-up connections. VBG> and why would you want to sign your messages with PGP? For the same reason that you put your signature under a typed letter, to prove it's yours. VBG> I heard The Bat! doesn't use PGP 8 and heard PGP 8 is the only VBG> compatible app to work with XP... Dunno. -- Groetjes, Roelof ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
