Gary Brown <[email protected]> writes: > What is the difference between IMAP and POP?
POP is a quite simple protocol to authenticate, list and download the messages from a mailbox. As discussed, most email clients have an option to delete (or not) messages after downloading. It's a simple email transfer protocol. IMAP is designed for an email client to access a server, and includes support for multiple folders, stateful differential checking, retrieving headers apart from the message body, server-pushed new-message notifications, and more. The IMAP model is much more "let's allow multiple clients to talk to the same email server full of folders of messages, and do so well" rather than POP's "let's download emails". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Advantages_over_POP3 -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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