Quoting Clifton Royston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:47:55AM -0500, Justin Shore wrote: ... > > It will delete messages from the inbox but it won't write > > anything new to it. Will this cause any problems? I'm considering > > switching to Imp or whatever other webmail package I can find that is > > highly customizable. > > IMAP-based webmail packages are very resource intensive; they tend to > open one IMAP connection per thing you do in the webmail which is a > nightmare scenario for IMAP daemons. Disk I/O = mailbox size * number > of mouse clicks, as one admin put it.
SOME Webmail packages can be abusive to the mailstore. IMP and Squirrelmail do that. Others maintain a state and keep a single connection option (which IMAP "likes"). (sendmail's webmail product, others). It's offtopic, so I'll stop here. Webmail tends to "want" IMAP vs. POP. Better put, POP is oriented to someone connecting, getting their mail and quitting. Webmail is designed for mail to live on the server and for long lived connections. Just like IMAP.
