Alan, Alan Pope wrote:
> By default POP allows you to download your mail and will remove it from > the server as it is downloaded. _However_ you _can_ tell your email > client to "leave mail on the server" rather than erase as you download. Thsi si true, but bear in mind that messages will be left in your inbox on the server. Some clients may also get confused about what has been read and what has not, so you may end up processing messages more than once if you connect from different locations. You also end up with different set sof messages on different clients, so it's not perfect. > With IMAP by default you also leave the mail on the server, and as Chris > says, download each mail on demand. _However_ with IMAP you can tell > your email client to download the entire mail which means you have a > copy of the mail cached locally. (This is what I do with evolution on 3 > separate machines, so that I can access my mail locally on any one of > them. Yes it means that my mail gets downloaded 3 times but I don't mind > that). If you file messages away in different mailboxes/folders, then these too are stored on the server and not locally (unless cached). This means you get a consistent view of your complete set of mailboxes regardless of which client or where you connect from. Personally, I would avoid POP all together and go for IMAP every time. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
