What is the difference between IMAP and POP?
On Tue, December 30, 2008 5:05 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > Gary Brown <[email protected]> writes: >> The main purpose for this is so that my wife and I can share one email >> (pop) account and message repository (Inbox, Sent, etc...) from >> different >> user accounts on the same computer. Any additional functionality would >> be >> great. > > Switch to IMAP ⦠it's almost 2009, already. :) > > But seriously, switch to IMAP. Have an IMAP server where all email is > stored, and connect from multiple/various clients (thunderbird, > squirrelmail (web based), blackberry service, outlook, &c.). Pull email > From your ISP via fetchmail (via either POP or IMAP). > > I've done this for a long time. fetchmail pulls my mail via imap(s) > From dreamhost every five minutes. Local delivery goes through procmail > to sort into maildir folders in my homedir. courier-imap is setup to > serve those folders directly. I primarily connect via Gnus (in emacs), > but have used thunderbird (when on the laptop), squirrelmail (when > traveling) and mutt (when gnus is misbehaving). > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >
