Thanks for another take, Paul. Very clear. There are pros and cons
with both obviously, but at least I can make an informed choice now.
I've chosen to stick with POP for a couple of the same reasons which
Neil Houghton has just mentioned in his post. Not that affects me, but
I just wondered for the sake of someone like Neil, if he went the IMAP
route, what happens if you change your email host ?!
Cheers, Steven
On 16/08/2008, at 8:08 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote:
Steven Knowles wrote:
In process of migrating to a totally Apple apps / iPhone / Mobile
Me set up.
Using latest apps and Leopard.
I've traditionally used POP for email settings, but I was reading
an article on the web which mentioned something like "why would
anyone use POP these days when there is IMAP?".
I don't understand the differences between POP and IMAP (happy to
receive an education in layman's terms) but as someone in a big
rush to just get this whole thing set up properly, is there a clear
cut option in terms of which I should use? Also, does it matter
that I will be using this set up also in the UAE?
I have an email account on Mail set up as POP at the moment, but
maybe that's the reason why I'm not seeing emails on the iPhone
despite having gone through the Sync process?
As an aside, if I have my iPhone on the 3G Optus network, as well
as connected to my home wireless internet account, if, say, surfing
the web on the iPhone, is it the Optus network that is accessed, or
is it the home internet account? Preference is the latter because
I'm not chewing up the limited download capacity I have with Optus
mobile contract. I did ask an Optus iPhone rep, who seemed to be in
a distant land and largely clueless.
Grateful for thoughts and answers.
Cheers, Steven
Hi Steven,
I regularly use different Computers/Devices, at home (two macs,
first in best dressed) and work.
IMAP suits this perfectly and I love it so.
To me IMAP is like a cross between Webmail and POP.
In essence it is using your email client, Mail.app, Thunderbird etc,
to remote control your webmail (your email server in fact).
When you view email using IMAP the message(s) *are* downloaded to
your machine and you can save it or print it like normal at that
point.
When you close that email it is effectively no longer on your
machine, it was just a copy for viewing etc. You will still have
just the *one* original up on the server.
If you go to another machine and access email via IMAP your emails
will look identical and the read ones will appear as having been read.
Backup is another issue, individual emails can be backed up by you
but I don't know about email folders.
I personally rely on the service itself having a reliable back up
regime, any self respecting one will be backed up like crazy, if you
are with dunno.wot you may not be so lucky.
So if you like the 'portability' of Webmail *and* you like the way
email clients work then IMAP is for you.
Cheers
Paul (simultaneously having and eating his cake)
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