On Thursday 14 August 2003 10:52, Ulrik S. Kofod wrote: > Horde/imp webmail supports pop3, but the mails are still kept on the > server. > > Jeff Koch sagde: > > It seems that the qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin people tend to recommend > > squirrelmail and sqwebmail. However, these are both imap clients. Our > > initial reaction is to prefer (in order to save bandwidth, cpu cycles > > and disk space) pop3 and have users keep their mail folders on their > > local PC's. Why do you all like the imap web email clients?
First of all, sqwebmail is neither an IMAP nor POP3 client. It reads/writes directly to the disk. But as for IMAP: The IMAP protocol has certain advantages over the POP3 protocol. For example, I can create an Outlook Express IMAP account on 10 different computers throughout the office, and on EACH computer I have full access to every mail message and every sent message stored on the server. In short, it's great for mobile users, travellers, or people with multiple computers. However, there _IS_ the disk space issue to deal with. We (WingNET) choose to handle this by selling IMAP accounts based on disk quota size, not # of accounts, as is common with POP3 pricing. We/I consider it an opportunity to provide better service to customers with special needs. Just don't give it away for free. Make them pay for it. It's only fair. > Are there > > any pop3 only web email clients that you guys would recommend? Sure. Outlook Express. However, webmail clients, by design, MUST store mail on the server. The HTTP protocol doesn't have any facilities for mail download in it's specification. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
