At 7:55 AM -0400 7/19/06, Alan Brown wrote:
there are fundamental client
restrictions which make it patently unsuitable for the job if more than
one client ever accesses the mailbox and/or if mail is regularly left on
the server.
POP is fundamentally a message *delivery* protocol, while IMAP is a
message *access* protocol. There are significant differences in the
model and capabilities.
That said, I have been happily using POP from multiple clients with
leave mail on server and very large spools. (I also use IMAP, by the
way, also with very large mailboxes.)
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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Studied carefully, a modern payphone reveals itself as a little
fortress, carefully designed and redesigned over generations, to resist
coin, slugs, zaps of electricity, chunks of coin-shaped ice, prybars,
magnets, lockpicks, blasting caps. Public pay- phones must survive in a
world of unfriendly, greedy people, and a modern payphone is as
exquisitely evolved as a cactus.
--Bruce Sterling
