you can telnet to an imap server too, although the commands are nowhere near as straight forward as pop. On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:02:17 +1300 Adrian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Helmut Walle wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > Actually, you can choose between flushing your mailbox, or keeping the > > retrieved messages on the server with POP, too. The big difference is > > that with POP you have to retrieve a complete message to obtain any > > header info like sender or subject, while with IMAP you can take a > > look at the header info without wasting bandwidth for downloading the > > message body. >
