Hi Jose,
> PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox, > while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders, > so I expect most mail providers to support IMAP now. I thought that folders were a client-side convention, and mail (POP3, IMAP) servers kept all incoming mail to one address together.
Folders are something managed on the server and you can use either IMAP or webmail to access them. With POP3, you can only access the inbox, so you would have to use the client to move individual mails to folders stored on your local disk. The mails in those client side folders would not be visible on other devices or webmail, so I assume and hope that most providers support IMAP today, so all devices can share the same folders :-) According to the google support website, IMAP will always be active for gmail in the future. No idea how old the article is - probably the future already is now :-) In the past, one had to manually enable it using some online menu. The google support website recommends that you do not store sent mail on the server manually, as sending mails via google will automatically do that already. It also recommends to save drafts, but not deleted mails on the server and it recommends to not move deleted mails to the trash can folder, as they would get permanently deletted after a month in the trash can and google prefers old mails to stay forever :-p It recommends that you set your client to just mark deleted mails as deleted where they are. Servers for Gmail: smtp.gmail.com TLS port 587 or SSL port 465. imap.gmail.com SSL port 993. pop.gmail.com SSL port 995 (but IMAP is better). Use the email address as user name to log in. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user