On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:06, Huan Yee Chew wrote:
While we're at the topic. Can anyone shed some light as to POP vs. IMAP?
With pop you download the current contents of you mailbox to your PC thus
emptying it. With IMAP
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
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Wayne Rooney wrote:
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You can get some of the benefits of IMAP from POP3 by using telnet. And
it's a damm site faster than using the ISP's web based mail too.
Hi Wayne,
Very good comment; using telnet on the POP port is good for
low-bandwidth connections, and it also is
Hi Wayne,
Very good comment; using telnet on the POP port is good for
low-bandwidth connections, and it also is a good way of playing with
POP and getting acquainted with the matter. The interactivity,
however, comes from telnet, and not from POP in this case, if I
understand it
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
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
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Helmut Walle 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 we're at the topic. Can anyone shed some light as to POP vs. IMAP?
Huan
At 13:56 15.11.2002, you wrote:
Have you considered an IMAP account instead?
If so try http://www.fastmail.fm/, in addition to IMAP the best thing
about them is that they have a one-time-payment only (about $US15 I
While we're at the topic. Can anyone shed some light as to POP vs. IMAP?
Different protocols.
pop downloads the entire inbox to your mail client.
an imap client allows you to browse the subject lines without downloading the
emails to your client.
imap also allows you to set up folders on the
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:06, Huan Yee Chew wrote:
While we're at the topic. Can anyone shed some light as to POP vs. IMAP?
With pop you download the current contents of you mailbox to your PC thus
emptying it. With IMAP
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