In response to the irritating things Yahoo and Hotmail are doing, I opened free IMAP mail boxes in Switzerland (15Mb) and France (10Mb). The former is where I now get all my newsletters. Much faster than any POP system and I can get scads of subscriptions and scan and trash most of the stuff easily! :-)"R.Danner III" wrote:Henrik Gemal wrote:Hans Wolf wrote:Can anybody please explain the differences in using IMAP vs. POP?POP is the old way to using mail. Connects and talk to the INBOX *only*. Mail is then fetching to the local disc. With IMAP all the mail is stored on the mailserver. You dont have any mail on the local disc. This provides an advantage since you can access your mail from all over the world. You can have multiple folder etc with IMAP. Filters also work with IMAP. IMAP is a bit slower since network trafic is slower than local disc access. I'm using IMAP and Mozilla and it just rocks.Earthlink and Bellsouth (ISP's) allow web-based access to POP3 accounts... I use it when I'm on the road, away from home. Generally speaking, there is a severe problem with IMAP; namely the fact that everything must fit within a (usually) 10mb disk space on the server. POP3 doesn't have that problem. And I'm not too keen on IMAP for another reason: It is all too easy for the server to delete necessary saved mails if they are on their server! Friend of mine lost several VERY IMPORTANT mails because the IMAP server purged all messages over 60 days old. He reverted back to POP3 and is happier.Both those are problem with your ISP, not IMAP.
There's a PINE fan who maintains a list of free IMAP servers. Google for it yourself -- I don't want to kill the goose!
Now, if only Moz could reformat e-mail HTML newsletters into two side-by-side pages... Maybe that's already in Bugzilla? If so, let me know the # so I can vote for it.
Nigel L
