After installing an IMAP account and a POP3 in Thunderbird for the same
account I can totally see the benefits and how it works.
CJ
Eric Shubert wrote:
> IMAP is the future, POP3 is the past. ;)
>
> When you have your email on an IMAP-accessible server, you can access it
> with any IMAP-capable client from virtually anywhere. Do you need to
> share your email account between your desktop and notebook? No problem.
> Would you like to pull up your email on your blackberry? Again, not a
> problem (and pretty slick if you ask me).
>
> Get the picture?
>
> Maxwell Smart wrote:
>> Got it.
>>
>> I was able to set up Thunderbird as an IMAP client and it works
>> perfectly including the Sent and SPAM folders. Are there advantages to
>> one over the other?
>>
>> CJ
>>
>> Jake Vickers wrote:
>>> Maxwell Smart wrote:
>>>> Yes, but it gets moved to a "Spambox" that can only be accessed via
>>>> webmail. I am asking if a "Spambox" can be created in your POP3 client
>>>> (Thunderbird) instead of having to access it via webmail to see if
>>>> anything of importance has been marked as SPAM and doesn't make it
>>>> to my
>>>> POP3 client.
>>>>
>>>> I understand the scoring and it currently works very well. I don't plan
>>>> on modifying anything. I just want to know how it works. It is
>>>> currently correct 98% of the time and that's pretty good IMHO.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> POP3 does not support folders, so the only way to access the Spam folder
>>> (as well as the Trash folder, Sent folder, etc.) is by using IMAP
>>> (webmail uses IMAP).
>>>
>
>
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