Rich Gregory, [RG] wrote: RG> With IMAP the server is smarter. It knows if you are at you primary PC RG> or not and if you send from any other PC it puts the sent mssg into RG> your sent mail folder in your primary email client for you.
IMAP is like web mail on adrenaline.
It doesn't matter which client you're using as it doesn't matter what
browser you're using to work with your webmail. The server doesn't care
or make a distinction with which location you're working from.
In fact, you can have multiple clients monitoring the same IMAP account
concurrently and even on the same machine.
The beauty of IMAP is that whatever work you've done with your mail that
reside in folders on the server, at one location will be evident at any
other location you work from. This includes common message flagging such
as if the messages have been read, replied to etc.
IMAP seems to support other means of message labelling such as some
forms of colour coding which seems to be in the process of being
standardised or has already been standardised. Any other form of message
labelling, flagging would have to be client specific and that sort of
thing wouldn't propagate from location to location. So it's not all
powerful in that regard. :)
To work with IMAP, a fast connection is pretty essential or else it
makes things tedious. Not that you can't work with a slow connection but
it's really not pleasant if where you work with mail the most, has a slow
IMAP server connection. It's important that you keep this in mind when
making a decision to change.
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