My mistake. I only meant to emphasize that it did not rely on IMAP like SquirrelMail does
-----Original Message----- From: Evren Yurtesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:47 PM To: William Voyek Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Why support imap? You are mistaken, sqwebmail doesnt support POP3 Furthermore it only supports Maildir directories. Which would be irrelevant if it was supporting POP3 anyway. William Voyek wrote: > IMAP is great for mobile users. They can access their email from > anywhere. POP3 should be used when you only check your email from one > computer. SquirrelMail is a Web based IMAP client. Sqwebmail is a > web based POP3 client. So if you're looking to use a web POP3 mail > client Sqwebmail is it. But anything that is web based needs to run > on the server, therefore whether you use IMAP or POP3 makes no > difference. It's only when you use a local mail client like Outlook or > Netscape that you are saving bandwidth, cpu cycles and disk space(only > after your clients have downloaded their mail). > > Cheers, > > William Voyek > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [qmailadmin] Why support imap? > > > > 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? Are there any pop3 > > only web email clients that you guys would recommend? > > > Best Regards, > > Jeff Koch > > > > > >
