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 you, in effect, 'surf' your mail box(es). Your mail stays on the server. Most ( half decent ) mail user agents offer both. > 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 think) > >account that I actually paid for! > > > >While they have advertising tags on the free account you can set it to say > >anything as long as it has their URL in it... -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
