On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:45:00 -0400, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Jul 2004 at 9:50, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > > > Also, since I used to check my main email from POP clients at both > > home and work, it's pretty tedious sorting through mail I've already > > read at work once I get home, and vice versa. I use multiple computers > > on a regular basis, so "away from my base PC" happens every day. > > Does your ISP and your email client support IMAP? If so, then maybe > you should stop using POP.
No, I don't have IMAP support. However, an email address I once had supported IMAP, and I still used the POP3 server to get my email. I've found IMAP to be rather slow, but of course it could have been a fault of the server. > I'd love to switch to IMAP myself (the support is there for me), but > I fear it's a one-way switch, and I don't know what the implications > of it are for client-side vs. server-side folders. What mail client do you use? It shouldn't be a problem if you're using any of the major ones, such as Outlook. On Outlook you could easily just copy the email in the server-side folders into your client-side folders and have it all ready to go back to POP access. [snip description of working method] None of what you describe sounds like a problem. If you want to try IMAP, it'll take a bit of work to do the switch, but it won't be debilitating to your POP setup. Possibly (if you're on Outlook) just create a new profile to set up IMAP access and see if you like it. If you want, you can even open your old .pst file as a separate "Personal Folders" file in your new profile so you can try it out with as little reorganizing pain as possible. > Then there's the issue of my multiple accounts. With Pegasus Mail and > the Mercury Mail POP client, I use single inbox on my PC that is fed > from 3 different POP accounts, and then sorted out into my secondary > inboxes. I don't know if IMAP can be run that way without forwarding > between accounts. That wouldn't be a disaster as only one of my 3 > main accounts is non-forwardable, but it's also the one I get the > least email in, so it would be very easy to miss email that way. IMAP cannot have a single Inbox for more than one account. The Inbox is a part of the account itself, and unless you can forward your email and funnel it all into one place you'll have to look at it separately. Also, you could forward all your email to one address, and then establish filters so that all email with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the "To" header gets sorted somewhere specific in the IMAP folders on the email1 account. That's actually what I'm doing right now with my gmail account: all email sent to my old sbcglobal.net address is auto-forwarded, and then a filter applies a label to it that basically reminds me to make sure the sender updates their address book. > Has anyone switched *back* from IMAP to POP? Yeah, I tried out IMAP briefly with the free account I described. Switching back was easy, as the client program could copy server-side email to my computer effortlessly. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
