On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bernie wrote:
| Sam Heywood wrote:
| >It identifies itself as a POP3 server. It is my understanding that IMAP
| >is merely an internet protocol or a feature that allows one to simply
| >configure an email client to access an alternative POP3 server. If my
| >concept is entirely incorrect, then please refer me to a source of
| >information.
|
| I'm sorry I don't know where to find any information. A IMAP server
| gives more interactivity with the user than a POP server will. For
| instance when you connect to a POP server (and not via Telnet) you
| can not choose which mails you want to delete, IMAP gives this
| ability to you. A typical IMAP aware program would show you some of
| the header information (as you already see in InSight) and then when
| you click on a link it will download that mail from the server and
| show it to you (as opposed to make a html file from the already
| downloaded mail). AFAIK very few IMAP servers and programs exist,
| and adding it to Arachne should be a very low priority project - but
| that's only IMHO of course. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS
| programs, Star Wars ...
Sam, Bernie, it is easy to get more information: http://www.imap.org
Regards
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Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA
