I guess the question Rick raised, is, are there any advantages to using IMAP over using a pop server which allows web access.
There is one I can think of: Even with web access, while I can have folders on my web mail and folders on my local mail, these folders do not have the same content. Using IMAP, you can have folders on your local machine which exactly match the folders on the server. Eventually the storage space will be filled up in either case. I have not found any web-based pop server [there may be] in which you can download the contents of a web folder to your local machine without transferring the contents first to the "inbox" and there are some that won't even allow that work around. That being said, I still prefer pop mail but keep my dot mac account as both pop and imap for certain things that I want to access on a folder by folder basis from a different location. It isn't my main mail address though. -- Barbara Needham
