IMAP still needs a matching SMTP server.
On 16/08/2008, at 9:00 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:
And from the perspective of my wife's situation (SMTP etc. last
week) how does IMAP impact. Does the IMAP server also send mail
without needing an smtp server?
Rob
Neil Houghton wrote:
Hmmm, I'm getting interested in this topic - I've always used POP &
never
had any experience of IMAP.
I got around the issue of what emails went where by making my main
desktop
computer the primary client/email store - so set it up to remove
the mail
from the server as it downloaded it. For any other computers (laptop,
mother-in-law in Perth etc) I set up the accounts to leave the
email on the
server - that way I could check the mail conveniently wherever I
was but
then, when I returned home it would all get downloaded to the main
computer
for filing.
This was OK for short term moving around, but I soon found snags on
a recent
6-week holiday - my mailboxes soon filled up and I had to start
clearing
stuff out so that emails to me didn't get bounced. Not really the
sort of
thing I wanted to worry about on holiday :(
Once I realised the problem I got into the habit of marking any
email that I
was deleting "remove from server" which didn't totally solve the
problem but
at least made the fill-up time acceptable.
I'm trying to work out if IMAP would be a better solution - but if
all your
mail is left on the server don't you still just soon run into the
"mailbox
full" issue? Bigpond only gives you 20MB and I think my (free)
hosted domain
has the same - whereas my Entourage Identity folder currently sits
at around
1.4 GB!
If you go the IMAP route do you have to pay to increase your online
mailbox
size to accommodate your (constantly increasing) email archive - or
is there
another way round this?
Cheers
Neil
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