Re: IMAP vs. POP

[Nigel L]

Nigel L replies to Nancy:
Nancy McGough wrote:

On 16 May 2002 Nigel L ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  

Mark E. Hansen wrote:
 "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.
    

  

Are these Swiss and French IMAP providers already in my list? If
not, please let me know who they are.


  

There's a PINE fan who maintains a list of  free IMAP servers.
    

Actually, she's mainly an *IMAP fan* and a Pine fan only because
it's a good IMAP client. My list of IMAP Service Providers is at
the IMAP URL that's in my sig below. The page contains lots of
IMAP info, including some about Mozilla mail/news.

Question to Nigel: How do you like totalise.co.uk as an IMAP
provider? They are the first ones in my list because they give 50
meg for free and I've sorted my list by price/meg/year.

All feedback and suggestions for my IMAP (and other) web pages
are welcome!

Thanks,
Nancy
  

First of all, I continue to use totalise.co.uk because Dawn Endico has that as my id in this spam-wary newsgroup.  I find them impossibly slow for serious work.  
Yes, the two IMAP servers came from Nancy's List.  Be aware that that the exceptionally fast French server requires one to enter addresses as if they were French numeric notation rues -- e.g,
3me Rue.
BTW, one of today's newsletters was from Brian Hatch at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and relates to the GNUpg encrypted signature system, which the MozDev enigmail project enables.
Thanks for your site, Nancy  :-) !
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                                                                                               Nigel L