On 02/16/2012 03:15 PM, MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 16/02/2012 20:07, hawker told the world: > >> There are plenty of valid reasons to use POP over IMAP, especially if >> you have a limited bandwidth connection (such as cell phone). I have >> some of my e-mail accounts IMAP, and some POP. There are valid reasons >> why I use both and different ones for different accounts. > > Actually, for limited bandwidth IMAP is a rather good choice, since you > don't run the risk of downloading 20mb attachments by accident. You > don't even have to download the message *body* if you know from the > header that it can wait until you are somewhere with better/unlimited > bandwidth. >
You don't run the "risk of downloading 20mb attachments by accident" with POP if you have your settings properly set. On the other hand, I see no options to configure IMAP on SeaMonkey to: 1) fetch only headers, and 2) limit download size. I do however have these options for a POP account: Edit|Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings|<account>|Fetch headers only I note that setting isn't available for an IMAP account - I wonder why as I have a greater chance of downloading attachments automatically without it... particularly since the option below also isn't available in IMAP settings. Edit|Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings|<account>|To save disk space, do not download: x Messages larger than __ KB I note that setting isn't available for an IMAP account. I just sent a msg with a 2.5MB attachment from my POP account to one of my IMAP accounts... the POP account is set to not download msgs larger than 300KB, so it shows me the first part of the msg and I need to click to download the rest. On the IMAP account, as soon as I click the msg header it just automatically downloaded the entire 2.5MB msg. Given the above, I'm confused about your comments regarding IMAP v POP. Is there a setting that I missed in the IMAP section? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
