On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:06:12AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:51:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Another meta-question, where can I find a straight-forward description of > > imap, without the enthusiastic pushing? What is it? > > it's just a protocol to access email on a remote server. that description > would apply to pop3 as well. the difference between them is that imap > leaves the messages on the server, while pop3 downloads them to the local > machine.
*By default* in both cases. There's nothing that actually forces you to leave mail on an IMAP server, neither is there anything that forces you to remove mail when you download it from a POP3 server. However most POP3 services expect you to remove mail when you download it and most IMAP services expect you to keep mail on the server. -- Chris Green
