>What is the difference between POP and IMAP Two different protocols.
>and why would an ISP have it >configured for IMAP when you have it selected as POP in your email >client? The ISP chooses what protocols to support, and it is up to you to choose a client that can match that. So the fact that you have a POP client makes no difference to the ISP. >Would this cause you not to be able to fetch your mail? Yup... you can't use POP to collect IMAP mail. Although a number of email clients support both protocols and can make it transparent to the user. Emailer alas, does not support IMAP. >I am tearing my hair out with a certain ISP over this......my father says >he can't get his mail, yet when I go in on the web, I see it there. Did the ISP tell him to use IMAP? Then he needs to use IMAP not POP. The fact that you can see the email on the web only means his account is getting the email, it doesn't mean jack in terms of if he can actually collect the email to his computer. >He >also gets tons of QUOTA (or HD) EXCEEDED messages when he has never gone >past 14 mails and has 13 gigs of drive space empty. Because I am sure his mail box is full. Because he isn't deleting the email from the mail server. The fact that his computer has 13 gigs of space doesn't mean anything. I'm sure he only has 5 - 20 MB of email box space on the mail server. He needs to tell the mail server to remove some of the old messages. (How is dependant on the mail client, so you'll have to check the directions for the client he uses). >When I call them, they insist he delete things, and there is nothing to >delete! How do you know there is nothing to delete? More than likely, his mail box on the server is full... thus why he is getting errors claiming that and tech support is insisting on it. POP protocol downloads and removes email from the server by default. IMAP does not. IMAP is designed to be an online mail protocol, so by default it leaves the email on the server until you tell it to remove it. In fact, if done properly, IMAP isn't really even supposed to download the email for permanent storage to your email client until you tell it to. Basically, IMAP is the way AOL email has always worked. It stays on the mail server until you specifically tell it to download it for storage and then delete on the mail server. It also allows you to log in from any IMAP client anywhere and have all your email right there, old and new email. Just like AOL does, where you can log in from anyones AOL application and access all your email. Although, unlike AOL, old read mail can stay on the IMAP server until you tell it to remove it (AOL IIRC dy default purges any old read mail older than 2 weeks or over a certain space/count... although that might have changed since the last time I used AOL). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
