JR> Would someone be good enough to explain the differences, JR> advantages, disadvantages of IMAP vs POP3 to me?
I am trying to better understand this myself. So far here's what I have, which is *none* of the tech details and just *a bit* of the usage differences. With POP your choices *for receive* are A) leave mail on server or B) delete messages when downloaded. This means if you check your mail from 2 (or more) different machines *only* your "primary" machine would be the one you want set to delete mssgs. When checking from other PCs you would want to leave mail on server so everything ends up in only the one email client on your primary PC. This works well with no problems. When *sending* using POP there is no problem if you send from your primary PC - BUT, sending from any other PC would leave you no record of a sent message. The common work-around for this is to BCC yourself. It works, but is hardly perfect. With IMAP the server is smarter. It knows if you are at you primary PC or not and if you send from any other PC it puts the sent mssg into your sent mail folder in your primary email client for you. Am I close? -- Rich ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
