Why IMAP? IMAP has many advantages over POP3. IMAP allows you to retrieve and store your messages in a standard format at central location that is accessible from ANY mail client that supports IMAP. Meaning... You can use an IMAP server on your machine to store all of your mail. You can read this mail with Outlook Express, Pegasys, Eudora, etc from any Windows machine, you can use Squirrel Mail from any machine with a web browser to access it, and any of the various X-Windows clients and even with good old Pine. All access and manipulate the same mailbox. With a POP3 based client you are basically stuck with a single client that retrieves and stores mail in a single location and is usually in a propriety format not accessible from other locations, machines or clients..
As for Squirrelmail replacements? Take at look at hotscripts.com (url may be wrapped) http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Email_Systems/Web-based_Email/ and report back which ones you like!! Although I am happy with SquirrelMail, I am interested in trying other ones also. As for IMAP servers, I've tried both Cyrus and the UV servers. I like the UW server much better. I good method for a home user is to run your own IMAP server and use fetchmail or something equal to POP in and collect all of your remote mails from any accounts you have. Then use any IMAP client to read this mail from your local server. One thing to consider for long term useage.. It helps to have a machine to run IMAP on that will always be around. If you don't plan on having a server or something that will be running all the time for you to get your mail then it might not be a logical choice. Unless you transfer the mail over to another format, once your local IMAP server is gone, so is all of your mail and access to it. On 22 Apr 2002 at 21:55, Jon Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know of a webmail interface, something similiar to squirrelmail, that works with pop3 instead of imap? And is their a reason to use imap instead of pop3? Thnx,
